
Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898)The English school · 1893–1898Painted here after this hand, never after their pictures
The English school 1872–1898
Aubrey Beardsley
Black ink, white paper, a wicked line.
Gone 128 years, so the hand is everyone’s. We describe it to the painters: the light, the ground, the palette, the stroke. The picture is yours.
Default palette: Prussian Print
What shall we hang here?The line above becomes the first.



