Word: venuses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Venus de Milo...
Illustrations for Poe, illustrations for Oscar Wilde, illustrations for the Yellow Book-marvelously adroit and facile pen and inks. "Salome," epicene and sleepy, the "Woman In the Moon," "Venus" in a modern gown, Pierrots, Sapphos, gigolos, whatnots. None of Beardsley's more obscene drawings are part of the sale...
...splash on page 71, to the day before his death." In 1911 he paid a million dollars for three Gainsboroughs. His Gutenberg Bible (often mistaken for the famed copy from the library of Cardinal Mazarin*) is worth $50,000; he has on his shelf the first edition of Venus and Adonis, the oldest existing edition of any work by Shakespeare. He has, in short, the most valuable collection of first editions in the world, and the most complete Americana. (To catalogue it cost $40,000.) These things and his magnificent 500-acre home at San Marino will...
...Venus and Bacchus hold alternate sway...
...under Venus with their misses sport...