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Aubrey Beardsley Exhibition at Tate Britain

4th March 2020 @ 10:00 am - 25th May 2020 @ 6:00 pm

The largest exhibition of his drawings for 50 years

Aubrey Beardsley shocked and delighted late-Victorian London with his sinuous black and white drawings. He explored the erotic and the elegant, the humorous and grotesque, winning admirers around the world with his distinctive style.

Spanning seven years, this exhibition covers Beardsley’s intense and prolific career as a draughtsman and illustrator, cut short by his untimely death from tuberculosis at the age of 25. Beardsley’s charismatic persona played a part in the phenomenon that he and his art generated, so much so that the 1890s were dubbed the ‘Beardsley Period’.

This is the first exhibition dedicated to Beardsley at Tate since 1923, and the largest display of his original drawings in Europe since the seminal 1966 exhibition at the V&A, which triggered a Beardsley revival.

The over 200 works include his celebrated illustrations for Le Morte d’ArthurLysistrata and Oscar Wilde’s Salomé. It also showsnartworks that were key inspirations for Beardsley, including Japanese scrolls and watercolours by Edward Burne-Jones and Gustave Moreau.


Details

Start:
4th March 2020 @ 10:00 am
End:
25th May 2020 @ 6:00 pm
Website:
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/aubrey-beardsley

Venue

Tate Britain
Millbank
London,SW1P 4RGUnited Kingdom

Organiser

Tate
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