RUDING, Walt. An Evil Motherhood; An impressionist novel. Frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley , London: Elkin Mathews, 1896, 8°, first edition with frontispiece of second issue, original blue cloth lettered in gilt, front cover depicting a spider's web, uncut and partly unopened. [Gallatin p. 56: 975] Elkin Mathews had commissioned a portrait of Ruding as the frontispiece, and was understandably annoyed by the original frontispiece, entitled "Black coffee," which had been intended for publication in The Yellow Book , vol. V, April 1895. John Lane, who had authorised Beardsley's dismissal from The Yellow Book staff, objected to its use. Consequently, Mathews stood over Beardsley refusing to leave his rooms until the present frontispiece, more or less a portrait of Ruding, was well advanced. Brian Reade writes: "Of all Beardsley's compositions this is perhaps the most evocative of the fin-de-siècle drama: the props are the oil-lamp, the antimacassar, the loose-covered armchair, the rug and the fender; the actors are the youth with long hair and pierrot-style slippers and trousers (Beardsley's specific contributions) and the ruthless mother, looking down on her son" ( Aubrey Beardsley , New York, 1967, p. 351).
RUDING, Walt. An Evil Motherhood; An impressionist novel. Frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley , London: Elkin Mathews, 1896, 8°, first edition with frontispiece of second issue, original blue cloth lettered in gilt, front cover depicting a spider's web, uncut and partly unopened. [Gallatin p. 56: 975] Elkin Mathews had commissioned a portrait of Ruding as the frontispiece, and was understandably annoyed by the original frontispiece, entitled "Black coffee," which had been intended for publication in The Yellow Book , vol. V, April 1895. John Lane, who had authorised Beardsley's dismissal from The Yellow Book staff, objected to its use. Consequently, Mathews stood over Beardsley refusing to leave his rooms until the present frontispiece, more or less a portrait of Ruding, was well advanced. Brian Reade writes: "Of all Beardsley's compositions this is perhaps the most evocative of the fin-de-siècle drama: the props are the oil-lamp, the antimacassar, the loose-covered armchair, the rug and the fender; the actors are the youth with long hair and pierrot-style slippers and trousers (Beardsley's specific contributions) and the ruthless mother, looking down on her son" ( Aubrey Beardsley , New York, 1967, p. 351).
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