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Oscar loved purple and gold, Aubrey put everything down in black and white. And while every connoisseur declared that line of the artist superb, there were others who deplored that he did not know where to draw it.
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Ada Leverson, a mutual friend of Beardsley and Oscar Wilde, as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 158

 

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