Editing Oscar Wilde (section)

=== Burial ===
{{Main|Oscar Wilde's tomb}}

[[File:Tomb of Oscar Wilde, Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris, France.jpg|thumb|alt=A large rectangular granite tomb. A large, stylised angel leaning forward is carved into the top half of the front. There are a few flowers beside a small plaque at the base. The tomb is surrounded by a protective glass barrier that is covered with graffiti.|The tomb of Oscar Wilde (surrounded by glass barrier) in [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]]]]

Wilde was initially buried in the [[Cimetière de Bagneux]] outside Paris; in 1909 his remains were disinterred and transferred to [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]], inside the city.{{sfn|Holland|Hart-Davis|2000|p=1230}} [[Oscar Wilde's tomb|His tomb]] there was designed by Sir [[Jacob Epstein]].{{efn|Epstein produced the design with architect [[Charles Holden]], for whom Epstein produced several controversial commissions in London.}} It was commissioned by Robert Ross, who asked for a small compartment to be made for his own ashes, which were duly transferred in 1950. The modernist angel depicted as a relief on the tomb was originally complete with male genitalia, which were initially censored by French authorities with a golden leaf. The genitals have since been vandalised; their current whereabouts are unknown. In 2000, Leon Johnson, a multimedia artist, installed a silver prosthesis to replace them.<ref>{{cite web |last=Johnson |first=Leon |year=2000 |title=(Re)membering Wilde |url=http://www.leonjohnson.org/projects/wilde.html |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021073735/http://www.leonjohnson.org/projects/wilde.html |archive-date=21 October 2014 |access-date=24 July 2015}}</ref> In 2011, the tomb was cleaned of the many lipstick marks left there by admirers and a glass barrier was installed to prevent further marks or damage.<ref>{{cite news |last=Tagliabue |first=John |date=16 December 2011 |title=Walling Off Oscar Wilde's Tomb From Admirers' Kisses |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/world/europe/oscar-wildes-tomb-sealed-from-admirers-kisses.html |url-access=limited |access-date=1 February 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |id={{ProQuest|1620500886}}}}</ref>

The epitaph is a verse from ''[[The Ballad of Reading Gaol]]'',

<blockquote><poem>
And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.{{sfn|Ellmann|1988|p=553}}
</poem></blockquote>