Aubrey Beardsley was the defining illustrator of the 1890s Aesthetic movement, creating black-and-white ink drawings of extraordinary sophistication and decadent beauty. His illustrations for Oscar Wilde's 'Salome' and for 'The Yellow Book' caused scandal with their erotic symbolism and exquisitely crafted grotesquerie. He died of tuberculosis at 25, leaving a body of work that remains strikingly modern.
