The Age of Enchantment
Beardsley, Dulac and their Contemporaries 1890-1930
The exhibition of British fantasy illustration will be the first such exhibition in Britain and the first worldwide for over 20 years. All works come largely from British museums and private colletions, many of these will never have been seen publicly before. Borrowing from the past, illustrators such as Aubrey Beardsley, Edmund Dulac and Kay Nielsonhad lavish colour plates published in children's books such as The Arabian Nights, which became the coffee table books for a new age.
28th November 2007 - 17th February 2008

Lecture on the Exhibition by Ian Dejardin: listen to the audio podcast here »

The Age of Enchantment Ian Dejardin, Director, welcomes you to The Age of Enchantment, an exhibition which shows over 100 extraordinary images from 1890 to 1930, some of dazzling beauty and some very peculiar...

		Aubrey Beardsley 'Salome and Jokanaan' from Salome. 1894 Beardsley's Salome drawings set new standards for decadent-themed draughtsmanship and inspired a new generation of young artist-illustrators intent upon emulatong his distinctive style..
		Harry Clark Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock. 1913 The multi-talented Irishman Harry Clark was a key figure in bringing the Beardsley reigion to Ireland. Clark was a masterful illustrator, who transformed Beardsley's high Gothic line into new depths of depravity and invention..
		Edmund Dulac Circe [The Enchantress]. 1911 Edmund Dulac was undoubtedly the greatest rival to Arthur Rackham for the gift book market. A master colourist, he took his inspirationfrom the Orient and Near East creating some of the most colourful illustrations yet published.
		Sidney Sime The Wily Grasser from 'Bogey Beasts'. 1923 One of the more extraordinary artist disciples of Beardsley. Despie his humble background, he was a charming character devoted to magazine illustration — he later owned and edited his own illustrated paper.
		Kay Nielsen 'Out of the fire jumped a little bird' 1925 This striking silhouette composition used the popular Danish paper-cut out style and illustrations the Grimm brothers' story of the Phoenix bird in 'The Juniper Tree'.
		Edmund Dulac The Ice Maiden 1915 'Everything about her was white, glistening and shining, so shining that the human eye could hardly bear the radiance.' from the book written by Queen Marie of Romania.
		Alastair (Hans Henning Van Voight) The Insulting Bird 1929 An emotive fantasy for an edition of the classic French erotic novel of libertines and lost innocence Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
		Leon Bakst Costume Design for La Peri 1911 Designed by Leon Bakst with a swirling scarf, peackock-hued ornaments and feather headdress, this is one of Bakst's masterpieces, used in the ballet La Peri.
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