Beardsley

aubrey beardsley spent his short life turning ink into something dangerous — black masses and white space arranged to provoke. the yellow book, the savoy, his illustrations for wilde's salome — every image polished a fin-de-siècle decadence into pure graphic line. tuberculosis took him at twenty-five; the work he left changed art nouveau and prefigured a century of comic-book inking. the peacock skirt, his most famous plate from salome, is in the catalog.