Matt Smith (British)
Family Romance I, (Oscar Wilde and Alfred), 2024
White earthenware, cobalt, glaze
40 x 50 x 6 cm
19 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.
19 3/4 x 15 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.
Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie). Douglas wrote several books of verse, some in a homoerotic Uranian genre. The phrase 'The love that dare not speak its name' appears...
Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie). Douglas wrote several books of verse, some in a homoerotic Uranian genre. The phrase "The love that dare not speak its name" appears in one (Two Loves), though it is widely misattributed to Wilde. The two were lovers, and Alfred's father, the Marquess of Queensberry, accused Wilde of being a sodomite. It was Wilde's failed libel action against the Marquess of Queensbury that resulted in Wilde going to Reading Gaol.
Courtesy of Cynthia Corbett Gallery
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