The Masque of the Red Death Lithograph by A. Beardsley, 1970s

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The Masque of the Red Death is a beautiful original lithograph realized by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley. Original title: Le masque … more The Masque of the Red Death is a beautiful original lithograph realized by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley. Original title: Le masque de la mort rouge The artwork is the plate n. 18 from the portfolio Erotiques de Beardsley. Editions Les yeux ouverts 1970, Paris. Exemplaire n°112 of an edition of 469. The artwork includes copy of the portfolio cover. Good conditions. The artwork shows an illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's novel “The Masque of the Red Death”. Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His drawings, executed in black ink and influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler. Beardsley's contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau style and the poster movement was significant, despite the brevity of his career before his early death from tuberculosis. less