The Dancer's Reward — Aubrey Beardsley's illustration

for Salome (original) (raw)

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The Dancer's Reward

Aubrey Beardsley, 1872-1898

1894

From Salome

“Beardsley's Salome would inform the many trajectories of Symbolism across the Continent in the early twentieth century, including in works by Fernand Khnopff and Gustav Klimt” —Richard Canning

Details & Related Material

• Grotesque organic stand holding the platter
• Macintosh-like roses
• Images of Women
• Gustave Moreau's The Apparition
• Moreau's Salome dancing before Herod
• Pierre Bonnaud's Salome

Bibliography

Canning, Aubrey. “In Two Minds: A Monumental Achivement Marking the Particular Achievement of Aubrey Beadsley.” Times Literary Supplement. (11 November 2016) 33.

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Last modified 22 December 2020