page_title: The Peacock Skirt
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: The Peacock Skirt / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: Aubrey Beardsley created his first version of The Climax, J’ai baisé ta bouche Iokanaan, as an illustration for the French version of Oscar Wilde's play, Salome. This illustration and eight others were printed in an article, "A New Illustrator: Aubrey Beardsley" by Joseph Pennell in the first issue of the artistic journal, The Studio in April 1893.
context_page_description: The Peacock Skirt is an 1893 illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. His original pen and ink drawing was reproduced as a woodblock print in the first English edition of Oscar Wilde's one-act play Salome in 1894. The original drawing was bequeathed by Grenville Lindall Winthrop to the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University in 1943.
context_section_description: Wilde's one-act play Salome was originally written in French in 1891, while he was living in Paris.  Performance of the play was prohibited in England, ostensibly on account of it depicting biblical characters.
  The play inspired Beardsley to make an illustration, J'ai baisé ta bouche, Iokanaan ("I have kissed your mouth, Jokanaan"), which was printed with eight other drawings in an article, "A New Illustrator: Aubrey Beardsley", by Joseph Pennell in the first issue of the artistic journal The Studio in April 1893.
  Wilde wrote to Beardsley, recognising him as a "kindred spirit" and enclosing a copy of Salome, and commissioned him to illustrate the first edition of the play, which was published in English in 1894.
caption: Aubrey Beardsley, J'ai baisé ta bouche, Iokanaan, illustration, The Studio, April 1893.
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