'Mother and Child ' was created as a Christmas card insert for the 'Savoy' magazine in 1895 when Beardsley was only 22 years old.
This wonderful print features a beautiful image of The Madonna and The Christ Child and it's Beardsley's only religious work. He was not at all happy with the piece.
This original 8" x 10.5" reprint is from 1965; printed on heavy paper and is in lovely condition. It's tanned just a tiny bit to a light ecru color (think pale vanilla ice cream) and it would be simply fabulous matted in a bright color and framed in either black or gold.
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Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was a popular and controversial British illustrator and author best known for his use of starkly contrasting and intricate black and white designs and for his caustic commentary on the society and the morality of his time of which he was a keen observer.
Most of his drawings were executed in jet black ink on white paper. Beardsley was clearly influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts. His subjects emphasized the beautiful, the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic.
He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic Art Movement of the late 1800s which also included the works of Oscar Wilde (whom he very much disliked,) Edgar Allan Poe, Harry Clarke, and James A. McNeill Whistler.
Beardsley's contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau style and the poster movement was hugely significant, despite the brevity of his brilliant artistic career before his untimely death from tuberculosis at only 25 years old.
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Matted. framed and displayed as a gallery grouping, these fabulous black and white book prints are simply spectacular. (Please note that the framed examples in the last two photos show how this might look when it's matted and framed. Your print will come to you unmatted and unframed.)
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