When Aubrey Beardsley died in 1898, he was aged only 25. In his
short but crowded career he had become one of the defining figures
of the fin-de-siècle, a precocious draughtsman who redefined the
limits of black-and-white art. His erotic, decadent illustrations
for Oscar Wilde's Salome set the tone for his style: by turns
shocking, facetious and cruel. Beloved by Burne-Jones, cursed by
William Morris, he was the intimate of Wilde, the rival of
Whistler, the friend of Beerbohm, Sickert, Ada Leverson and William
Rothenstein. His deliberate manipulation of press and public, his
awareness of both art and the market-place, made him one of the
first truly modern artists.
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