Collection art and info from known and anonymous vintage artists
~ 1887 – 1918 Aroldo Bonzagni was an Italian painter and draughtsman.His numerous drawings were influenced by the work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jean-Louis Forain and Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen, and above all by the style of the Munich and Vienna Secessions, known in Italy through the Venice Biennales of the early…
~ 1881 – 1971 Raoul Serres was a French engraver and illustrator. He was a pupil of Jules Jacquet , Henri-Joseph Dubouchet and Léon Bonnat , Raoul Serres was a member of the Society of French Artists in 1906 and exhibited at the Salon of this group. He obtained an honorable mention in 1898…
Roger Jadot, a Belgian artist from Brussels, was known for his sadomasochistic artworks with fetish themes in the 1950s. Living as a reclusive hermit, he held only one exhibition in the 1960s. Much of his work remains unpublished, and he also illustrated for magazines under pseudonyms like Sérajat and Joe Fifties.
~ 1897–1954 John Buckland Wright was a British printmaker, painter and draughtsman. He worked principally as an etcher and engraver, and was self-taught. He studied history at Oxford and then architecture in London. He soon realised that he wanted to be an artist more than an architect and by 1921…
~ 1897 – 1976 André Collot was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator whose career spanned several decades. At first glance, his work might not immediately suggest a strong connection to BDSM or fetish themes. However, his illustrations for the infamous 1931/1936 edition of the Marquis de Sade’s Les 120…
This enigmatic artist, signed in a way that can be read as either A.W or R.W (and in some older references possibly R.O), remains one of the most intriguing mysteries in vintage fetish and BDSM illustration. As a non-expert in deciphering signatures from this period, I find it genuinely difficult…