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Aubrey Beardsley died on the 16th of March 1898 at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France. He was 25 years old. His remains were interred in the Cimetière du Trabuquet following a requiem Mass at Menton Cathedral.
Beardsley was known for black ink illustrations featuring large dark areas contrasted with large blank ones, and dense fine detail set against areas with none at all. His work was influenced by Japanese woodcuts and shunga artwork, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era.
Beardsley co-founded The Yellow Book with American writer Henry Harland in 1894, serving as art editor for its first four editions. He also co-founded The Savoy, where he published writing including his story Under the Hill and the poem "The Ballad of a Barber".
Beardsley's major illustration projects included Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory, published by J.M. Dent and Company in 1893; a privately printed edition of Aristophanes' Lysistrata; illustrations for Oscar Wilde's Salome; an 1896 edition of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock; and a 1894 translation of Lucian's True History printed in an edition of 251 copies.
Beardsley's last letter, postmarked the 7th of March 1898, was addressed to his publisher Leonard Smithers and friend Herbert Charles Pollitt. He implored them to destroy all copies of his Lysistrata illustrations and other obscene drawings, signing off "In my death agony." Both men ignored his wishes; Smithers continued selling reproductions and forgeries.
Beardsley suffered from tuberculosis from the age of seven. He experienced recurrent lung hemorrhages throughout his career, and a violent hemorrhage in December 1896 left him in precarious health. Tuberculosis was the cause of his death in 1898. The disease also affected his father and had killed his paternal grandfather at the age of 40.