"Salome," a one-act tragedy by the Irish playwright, terrified the Victorian public with its provocative depiction of a ...
Poised to compete across time zones, bidders in Barry Humphries: The Personal Collection were greeted at the start of this much-anticipated auction with the inimitable phrase ‘Hello Possums’ ahead of ...
Jacob Epstein was very upset. For months, the sculptor had toiled on a memorial tomb for Oscar Wilde, the celebrated—and often vilified—author of works like The Picture of Dorian Gray.