Franz von Bayros (1866-1924) was an Austrian illustrator and commercial artist belonging to another movement near and dear to my heart, the Decadents. His best known works belong to a series, though not a formal one, known as "Tales at the Dressing Table" and are shocking in their frank depictions of rather extreme sexual practices, as well as notable for their simple technical splendor. The complexity, baroque quality of the images presented with clinical precision of line and texture, serves as an elegant evocation of cultural decadence, lavishness and resplendence coupled with spiritual destitution.
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