Cover for volume I of The Yellow Book
Print
1894 (made)
1894 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Line block print before lettering depicting two masked figures, one with a beauty spot and holding a long smoking candle.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Cover for volume I of The Yellow Book (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Line block print |
| Brief description | Print of the cover illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for 'The Yellow Book', volume I, January 1894. |
| Physical description | Line block print before lettering depicting two masked figures, one with a beauty spot and holding a long smoking candle. |
| Style | |
| Bibliographic reference | The following excerpt is from Brian Reade in his 1967 Beardsley catalogue, p.344 (n.343):
'What is remarkable is the exaggerated form of the woman's hat cut from the darkness behind - of which it is literally a part - by two bold white curved lines. The balancing of hat, hair and shoulders in this figure inside a rectangle of such a shape, the exceptionally hard, flat, jagged treatment of the gown, differentiated by heavy dots: the dots themselves - vestigial of pointilliste spots or other spatter on Toulouse-Lautrec's posters - al contributed to a startling design which appears to have in the seeds of Cubism and many kinds of abstract art'. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.22193 |
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| Record created | August 18, 2015 |
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