Comments on: “Weirdsley Daubery”: Beardsley and Punch http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/10/11/weirdsley-daubery-beardsley-and-punch/ • • • Being a journal by artist and designer John Coulthart, cataloguing interests, obsessions and passing enthusiasms. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:50:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/10/11/weirdsley-daubery-beardsley-and-punch/comment-page-1/#comment-37898 John Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:23:46 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2449#comment-37898 Yes, there were about twenty or so in the Nichols set, many of which still turn up in books credited as being by Beardsley himself. They're variable quality; most are very bad, some are are outright copies of Alphonse Mucha pictures, but a couple are passable. One of the best is a portrait of Whistler walking with a long cane. The Wilde portrait is ridiculous since it's copied from a photo of Wilde; Beardsley never used photos in that way. Worst example I've seen of their use recently was in a set of Taschen postcards which included two or three of the poor ones. Whoever edited that wasn't doing their job properly. Yes, there were about twenty or so in the Nichols set, many of which still turn up in books credited as being by Beardsley himself. They’re variable quality; most are very bad, some are are outright copies of Alphonse Mucha pictures, but a couple are passable. One of the best is a portrait of Whistler walking with a long cane. The Wilde portrait is ridiculous since it’s copied from a photo of Wilde; Beardsley never used photos in that way.

Worst example I’ve seen of their use recently was in a set of Taschen postcards which included two or three of the poor ones. Whoever edited that wasn’t doing their job properly.

]]> By: Mythicalbeast http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/10/11/weirdsley-daubery-beardsley-and-punch/comment-page-1/#comment-37889 Mythicalbeast Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:49:39 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2449#comment-37889 Here are a couple of other AVB fakes I found this morning, along with a brief article. Never seen the Wilde or Whistler ones before, but the other two are fairly well known. http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/beardsley/forgery.html Here are a couple of other AVB fakes I found this morning, along with a brief article. Never seen the Wilde or Whistler ones before, but the other two are fairly well known.

http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/beardsley/forgery.html

]]> By: John http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/10/11/weirdsley-daubery-beardsley-and-punch/comment-page-1/#comment-37615 John Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:23:11 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2449#comment-37615 Heh, yes. And he made the point in one of his self-portraits where he has a very phallic haircut: http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=65965&rendTypeId=4 Heh, yes. And he made the point in one of his self-portraits where he has a very phallic haircut:

http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=65965&rendTypeId=4

]]> By: Thombeau http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/10/11/weirdsley-daubery-beardsley-and-punch/comment-page-1/#comment-37612 Thombeau Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:34:13 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=2449#comment-37612 My favorite Beardsley quote: "Even my teeth are a little phallic." My favorite Beardsley quote: “Even my teeth are a little phallic.”

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