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Aubrey Beardsley
1872–1898
The Bass Player
Pen, brush and Indian ink over traces of pencil
6 ⅝ × 2 ⅛ inches · 176 × 61 mm
Drawn: February – March 1895
Collections
John Lane (1854-1925);
Carl Hentschel (1864 -1930);
Christopher Carl Hentschel (1891-1979); son of the above;
Sotheby’s, 19th July 1967, lot 12;
Brian Reade (1913-1989), acquired from the above;
By inheritance to 2025;
Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd.
Exhibitions
Kanagawa, Kawasaki City Museum; Wakayama, Museum of Modern Art; and Gunma, Museum of Modern Art,
Aubrey Beardsley: A Centenary Tribute
, 1998, no. 124.
Literature
Courier Français
, 17 February 1895, p.10;
Aymer Vallance, ‘List of Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley’ in Robert Ross,
Aubrey Beardsley
, London, 1909, no. 127;
Albert Eugene Gallatin,
Aubrey Beardsley: Catalogue of Drawings and Bibliography
, New York, 1945, no. 974;
Brian Reade,
Aubrey Beardsley
, London, 1967, p. 348, no. 377, repr. pl. 379;
Brigid Brophy,
Black and White: A Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley
, New York, 1969, p.50 and 54;
Milly Heyd,
Aubrey Beardsley: Symbol, Mask, and Self-Irony
, New York, 1986, p. 226;
Linda Gertner Zatlin, ‘Beardsley Redresses Venus’,
Victorian Poetry
, vol.28, no.3-4, 1990, pp. 73, 75;
Simon Wilson and Linda Gertner Zatlin,
Aubrey Beardsley: A Centenary Tribute
, Tokyo, 1998, p.240, no.124;
Linda Gertner Zatlin,
Aubrey Beardsley: a catalogue raisonné
, New Haven and London, 2016, vol. II, p. 165, no. 950.
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