Collection art and info from known and anonymous vintage artists
Seiu Ito (1882 – 1961) also romanised as Seiyu Itoh, was a Japanese painter, recognised today as “the father of modern kinbaku” Ito was born Hajime Ito in Asakusa district and started his education in painting by 1890. His father was a metalworker and he also received training in ivory carving, later sculpture. He adopted the alias Seiu (Sino-Japanese reading of kanji for words ‘clear’ and ‘rain’)…
Mario was a fetish artist who worked for a short period of time for Irving Klaw’s Movie Star News company. He drew two complete serials for Klaw and one unfinished, all are featured in the gallery below. “Rubber Queen’s Captives” (1954) was an unfinished comic. Unlike his contemporaries Eric Stanton…
This is one of those artists that so far remain a mystery. At first I found artworks from a book published in 1960, titled Rossera. The artworks are signed L.RI also found two artworks that belong to a book titled Ilona, privately published with no known date but with the…
There is nearly nothing to find for this artist. Jean-Pierre Dutel mentions Lapin was living in Eastern Europe around 1920, perhaps in Prague and the artist may have been Czech. There is one book known as illustrated by Lapin: Les erreurs de l’amour, which was published in 1926. Please log…
Edgard Tytgat (1879 – 1957) was a Belgium expressionist painter, cover artist and engraver. He combined expressionism with a poetic, sometimes dreamy style. Tytgat spent his youth in Bruges, until the family moved to Brussels in 1888. After a failed attempt to become a clock-maker, he attended the Brussels Fine…