Odalisque

Henry Weston Keen

1925–30 · Lithograph · Drawings and Prints

Keen worked as a printmaker and illustrator in the 1920s and 1930s, creating unsettling symbolist images reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley. Two significant commissions were designs for luxury editions published by The Bodley Head–a firm that had launched Beardsley in the 1890s–Oscar Wilde's "Picture of Dorian Gray" (1925) and John Webster's "The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi" (1930). After Keen's early death from tuberculosis, The Twenty-One Gallery in London held a memorial exhibition.

Artist

Henry Weston Keen

Date

1925–30

Medium

Lithograph

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967