Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012

The Acquisitions

Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2011–June 2012


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Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley

about 1894
Frederick H. Evans
Sheet: 13.7 x 9.7 cm (5 3/8 x 3 13/16 in.)
Photograph, platinum print

Classification: Photographs

Accession number: 2012.323

Provenance/Ownership History: Probably about the late 1970s, with Helios Arts Inc., New York; sold by Helios Arts to a private collection; October 6, 1999, anonymous (private collection) sale, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 58, sold. October 4, 2011, anonymous sale, Philips De Pury and Company, New York, lot 222, to the Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA; 2012, sold by the Lee Gallery to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 27, 2012).

William Nickerson Fund, Otis Norcross Fund, and Lucy Dalbiac Luard Fund