Stephen Marrello
To Die For
Illustration
2024
Oil on Linen
23 x 12.5
Obsession with beauty was a new kind of religion for London in the 1890s, acting as escapism from modern life. Arsenic dyes were all the rage in fashion, and for the dandies of the period, this style was to die for.
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