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Harper Pennington (1854-1920), Portrait of Oscar Wilde, 1884. © The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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Various portraits of family, friends and familiar, allow the evocation of his personal life, complemented by some memorabilia and several drawings and watercolors, landscapes and por- traits by Oscar Wilde himself.
The exhibition includes of course the manuscripts of his most important works and copies of his books signed to French authors and various correspondences.
Particular emphasis is placed on Salome the theatre play written for Sarah Bernhardt published in French in 1893 with its famous illustrations by Beardsley.
Oscar Wilde remains forever the symbol of extreme refinement, a lover of beauty and, unlike his character Dorian Gray, no wilting of the time could not tarnish his memory.
«Those who find ugly intentions in beautiful things are corrupt without being seductive. And it’s foul.Those who find good intentions in beautiful things are the cultivated. It remains there for expectancy.These are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
« - Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - 1890 and not a wrinkle...
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