?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
AUBREY BEARDSLEY KEYNOTES SERIES. 1896. 19x131/2 inches. Forbes Co. Condition B+: unobtrusive water stain across top of image; discoloration in image; archivally (?) taped to mount at top of verso. Paper. Various figures populate a poster promoting a series of books published in England and Boston. Beardsley "with his erotic grotesquery, his tuberculous capacity for a fine, punctilious decadence . . . ushered out the century in a sensuous shiver" (Rickards, Posters at the turn of the Century, Ryerson Press, Toronto, 1968, p. 36), "he so far despised the society that suffered him that he allowed his mockery to invade his work; more often than not his assignments in illustration and decoration carried him off in flights of irrelevant rudery; he was compulsive, abstruse, and rapturously sick" (ibid). DFP I 11, Maitres 1900 p. 105.
