Aubrey Beardsley

About the Book

At twenty the "Fra Angelico of Satanism", as Roger Fry was to call Aubrey Beardsley, was an obscure clerk in a London insurance firm. Three years later he was the most notorious — and perhaps the most influential — artist in England.

Here, then, is the marvelous boy—he died at twenty-five—as human being and as complex and tragic genius, in the rich context of 150 examples of his graphic art.

The original version of Aubrey Beardsley was a National Book Award nominee.

About the Author

Stanley Weintraub is biographer of Whistler, Rosetti, Shaw, Victoria, Prince Albert, Disraeli, Edward VII and T.E. Lawrence. His biography of Aubrey Beardsley was a National Book Award nominee. Six of his books have been Book of the Month Club Selections.