1 album/9 artworks – There is very little known about this artist. C. Helsey illustrated the French spanking novel Les Humiliations de Miss Madge, written by Aimé Van Rod. This book was published in 1912. The cover for this book seems to have been done by M. del Giglio.There is also a version published in 1923 with art from Gaston Smit.
La Religieuse (also called The Nun or Memoirs of a Nun) is an 18th-century French novel by Denis Diderot. Completed in about 1780, it was first published by Friedrich Melchior Grimm in 1792 (eight years after Diderot’s death) in his Correspondance littéraire in Saxony, and subsequently in 1796 in France.To…
Liliane Gourari (or Lilian Gourari) was a French artist who illustrated erotic BDSM novels such as Justine, ou Les Infortunes de la Vertu, published in 1947 by Éditions du Globe, Paris, written by Marquis de Sade).These illustrations, only a few of which are spanking art, date from 1945 according to…
Paul Kamm (1891 – After 1935) was a visionary illustrator and artist whose provocative works captured the underground allure of FemDom and BDSM themes during the Weimar era. Also known by his birth name Paul Klamm and the enigmatic pseudonym C. Soulier, Kamm’s oeuvre, marked by intricate watercolor drawings of female‑female and female‑male…
When searching for new artists to add to my collection I come across many illustrated books with rare bdsm artworks. For some books, the illustrator has not yet been determined. Sometimes a name was provided, but no info was found for that name. In other cases, I did not find…
Pierre Klossowski (1905 – 2001) was a French writer and artist whose Mannerist-inspired art explored homoerotism and sadomasochistic imagery. Though less well-known than his older brother Balthus, Klossowski has been the subject of a renewed critical interest following a 2015 retrospective exhibition at Gladstone Gallery in New York. Recalling the Surrealist…
Chevalier Fortunino Matania (1881 -1963) was an Italian artist noted for his realistic portrayal of World War I trench warfare and of a wide range of historical subjects. Fortunino Matania studied at his father’s studio, designing a soap advertisement at the age of 9 and exhibiting his first work at Naples…