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In the play’s climax, she demands the beheading of Jokanaan (Greek for John the Baptist), the one she claims to love so that he is punished for rejecting her.īeardsley got very interested in the piece. His Salome has became the object of lust as well as the one overcome by a perverted passion. Wilde worked on the main character and made the girl both innocent and evil, a victim and a victimiser. He took existing versions of Salome, combined and revised them. When Wilde wrote his Salome, he did not create a new story he created a version of the ever-evolving legend. For that moment, he had already published his immortal novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and a brilliant series of domestic comedies - Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893).

Oscar Wilde wrote it at the height of his career. It was a real macabre play that revitalized the rusty machinery of French drama. It will also show artworks that were key inspirations for Beardsley, including a Japanese scroll and watercolours by Edward Burne-Jones and Gustave Moreau.Beardsley's relationship with Wilde was not smooth from the very beginning.At first, in April 1893, Aubrey was inspired by the just published Wilde’s Salome written in French. The over 200 works include his celebrated illustrations for Le Morte d’Arthur, Lysistrata and Oscar Wilde’s Salomé. This will be the first exhibition dedicated to Beardsley at Tate since 1923, and the largest display of his original drawings in Europe since the seminal 1966 exhibition at the V&A, which triggered a Beardsley revival. Beardsley’s charismatic persona played a part in the phenomenon that he and his art generated, so much so that the 1890s were dubbed the ‘Beardsley Period’.

Spanning seven years, this exhibition will cover Beardsley’s intense and prolific career as a draughtsman and illustrator, cut short by his untimely death from tuberculosis at the age of 25.

He explored the erotic and the elegant, the humorous and grotesque, winning admirers around the world with his distinctive style. There will be access to toilets, a shop and an opportunity to buy food and drink during your visit.Īubrey Beardsley shocked and delighted late-Victorian London with his sinuous black and white drawings. This one-way route guides you from the Manton entrance and through the exhibition.