On Aubrey Beardsley Birthday

Beardsley by Frederick Hollyer, 1893

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Of course, I have one aim, the grotesque.
If I am not grotesque I am nothing.

- Aubrey Beardsley -

August 21, 1872 - March 16, 1898

English illustrator and author


Aubrey Beardsley - Illustration History

Aubrey Beardsley illustrations for Salome by Oscar Wilde
© The British Library

Aubrey Beardsley’s Haunting Edgar Allan Poe Illustrations
© Paris Review

Aubrey Beardsley – Exhibition at Tate Britain | Tate
The largest exhibition of his drawings for 50 years

the exhibition runs in London
until September 20, 2020