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Lot 58: American Literary Poster

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Lot 58: American Literary Poster
<b>COPELAND & DAY</b> <p> <b>58. The Yellow Book/Copeland and Day.</b> 1894.
Artist: <b>Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)</b>
9 x 26 in./22.8 x 66 cm
Geo. H. Walker Lith., Boston
Cond A.
Ref: DFP-I, 9 (var); Beardsley, 335 (var); PAI-XIII, 93
Originally used to advertise a line of children’s books, here Beardsley’s design announces the January 1895 issue of The Yellow Book. Brian Reade notes: “Such winged chairs were known as grandfather’s chairs, and Beardsley may have intended to represent a grandmother sitting in an appropriate chair and reading to her grandchildren from one of the books. . . . The gown with its leg-of-mutton sleeves is of the Nineties, but the feather is in the mode of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. Instead of age and maturity therefore Beardsley has formulated a disturbing sensuality in the features of the woman. This was the kind of negligent irony which repelled so many of his own generation” (Beardsley, p. 343).
<b>Est: $2,500-$3,000.</b>
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