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Cabinet photograph signed ('Aubrey Beardsley') and inscribed to André Raffalovich, [Bournemouth, July 1896 - April 1897]
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BEARDSLEY, Aubrey (1872-1898)
Cabinet photograph signed ('Aubrey Beardsley') and inscribed to André Raffalovich, [Bournemouth, July 1896 - April 1897]
The image by W.J. Hawker, Bournemouth, 144 x 92mm, mounted on photographer's card, 163 x 106mm, framed and glazed. Signed by Beardsley on the lower right corner of the image, and by the photographer on the verso. Provenance: Philip S. Burns – auction of his Aubrey Beardsley collection, Sotheby's, 19 November 1999, lot 117 – Barry Humphries (1934-2023).
The dying Beardsley, inscribed to his patron. Beardsley had settled in Bournemouth in July 1896, seeking some respite from his lifelong tuberculosis, then in its terminal phase: he remained until April 1897, having converted to Roman Catholicism on 31 March: he had only 11 months to live. The recipient of the photograph is Beardsley's patron, Marc-André Raffalovich (1864-1934), 'a rich, homosexual, thirty-year-old aesthete who became Beardsley's friend and mentor and helped him with money' (ODNB). Raffalovich is a signficant writer on homosexuality: his Uranisme et unisexualité: étude sur différentes manifestations de l'instinct sexuel was published in 1896.
Cabinet photograph signed ('Aubrey Beardsley') and inscribed to André Raffalovich, [Bournemouth, July 1896 - April 1897]
The image by W.J. Hawker, Bournemouth, 144 x 92mm, mounted on photographer's card, 163 x 106mm, framed and glazed. Signed by Beardsley on the lower right corner of the image, and by the photographer on the verso. Provenance: Philip S. Burns – auction of his Aubrey Beardsley collection, Sotheby's, 19 November 1999, lot 117 – Barry Humphries (1934-2023).
The dying Beardsley, inscribed to his patron. Beardsley had settled in Bournemouth in July 1896, seeking some respite from his lifelong tuberculosis, then in its terminal phase: he remained until April 1897, having converted to Roman Catholicism on 31 March: he had only 11 months to live. The recipient of the photograph is Beardsley's patron, Marc-André Raffalovich (1864-1934), 'a rich, homosexual, thirty-year-old aesthete who became Beardsley's friend and mentor and helped him with money' (ODNB). Raffalovich is a signficant writer on homosexuality: his Uranisme et unisexualité: étude sur différentes manifestations de l'instinct sexuel was published in 1896.
