The Peacock Skirt — Beardsley, poster

Aubrey Beardsley's 1893 illustration for Oscar Wilde's Salome, taken from Wikimedia Commons CC0 scan, on archival fine art paper.

Beardsley's Peacock Skirt is the most decadent moment in English Art Nouveau — a figure whose gown fans into a thousand eyes, ornament so dense it becomes almost abstraction. Every line is deliberate; every blank space is as important as every mark. Wilde's Salome needed an illustrator as radical as the play itself. Beardsley arrived with Japanese woodblock technique and English perversity. The marriage was instant.

This is reproduced from a Wikimedia Commons CC0 archive scan at full resolution, printed on archival fine art paper, ready to hang.

THE PRINT

• Available in 13×18 cm / 5×7", 50×70 cm / 20×28", or A0 (84.1×118.9 cm), portrait orientation
• Archival giclée on 200gsm Enhanced Matte fine art paper
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THE WORK

• Artist: Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898)
• Year: 1893
• Collection: Public domain
• Source: Wikimedia Commons · CC0 archive scan

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