Private collection
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.