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Wilde, Oscar und Beardsley, Aubrey
(1854-1900; 1872-1898)Salomé. Illustr. A. Beardsley

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Auktionsdatum 15.4.2026

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Auktionsdatum 14.–15. April, 2026

Beardsley, Aubrey. - Wilde, Oscar. Salomé. A tragedy in one act: translated from the French of Oscar Wilde. 75 S. Mit 16 ganzseitigen Illustrationen von Aubrey Beardsley. Hellblauer OLeinenband (etwas berieben) mit goldgeprägtem RTitel. London, Melmoth, 1904.
Eines von 250 nummerierten Exemplaren der Ausgabe "on hand-made paper" (Gesamtauflage: 300).
"Wilde accompanied his publication of Salome with a set of illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. The highly grotesque black and white drawings, complete with both transparent and ambiguous sexual references, form an erotic visualization of Wilde’s vision of Salome. In her book Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the fin de siècle, Elaine Showalter meticulously describes some of Beardsley’s drawings and calls attention to the fact that the illustrations have often been misinterpreted as conflicting with the text of the play. She writes that on the contrary, they 'bring out all too powerfully the secret or unspeakable subtext of the play, especially its homoerotic and blasphemous elements' (Showalter 152). Wilde was certainly aware of Beardsley’s correct interpretation and depiction of his Salome seeing that he wrote in the edition he presented to his friend, 'For the only artist who, besides myself, knows what the dance of the seven veils is and can see that invisible dance' (Showalter 152)" (zit. nach Tania Albin). – Nur Textblätter stellenweise leicht gebräunt, das unbeschnittene Exemplar von schöner Gesamterhaltung.