Sentences with phrase «british aestheticism»

At auction for the first time in 100 years, Golden Hours, 1864, by Frederic, Lord Leighton, a pivotal masterpiece of British Aestheticism, achieved a new world auction record for the artist, selling for # 3,274,500 / $ 4,384,556 / $ 3,945,773.

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As striking for their overwhelmingly yellow palette as for their fantastical imagery, Bohl's drawings invoke the signature style of British author and illustrator Aubrey Beardsely (1872 - 1898), who, along with American writer Henry Harland (1861 - 1905) co-edited The Yellow Book (1894 - 97), a leading British arts and literary periodical associated with Aestheticism and Decadence that helped define the last decade of the 19th century as «The Yellow Nineties.»