Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Stomach Dance
A bare-breasted dancer floats above a dark lower field scattered with curling ornaments. A fantastic musician raises an instrument beneath her feet. The long white space and suspended pose give Beardsley’s Stomach Dance an unsettling lightness.
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Aubrey Beardsley. "The Stomach Dance" [editorial title]. In Salome, Oscar Wilde; English translation from the French, with sixteen drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. Supplied illustrated edition from John Lane, The Bodley Head; John Lane Company, undated edition, John Lane, The Bodley Head; John Lane Company. Source scan leaf 85. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/beardsley-salome-stomach-dance
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
From Aubrey Beardsley’s illustration cycle for Oscar Wilde’s one-act tragedy. The scanned 1907 plate retains its complete composition, border and paper tone. The browsing title follows the volume’s list of pictures.
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SalomeOscar Wilde; English translation from the French, with sixteen drawings by Aubrey BeardsleyUndated editionMore from this book
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Aubrey Beardsley. The Stomach Dance. Salome. Scan leaf 85. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/beardsley-salome-stomach-dance