Collection art and info from known and anonymous vintage artists
Lushé, an enigmatic figure from the 1930s, is shrouded in mystery with no verifiable details of birth or death. Known for provocative sketches of women in bondage, his work appeared in a 1972 anthology. Recent findings of signed pieces attributed to a possible Polish émigré add to his legend without concrete proof.
René Lelong (c.1871‑1933), Académie Julian instructor and Salon exhibitor, created elegant covers for Femina and L’Illustration and posters. In 1899, under Charles Carrington, he secretly illustrated Étude sur la flagellation à travers le monde, producing ten plates of canings and floggings. The book disappeared, and Lelong never revisited such subjects.
~ Date of birth unknown At first I had this paged stored as ‘Lany-R and Sao-Chang’, it seems these were two illustrators (or perhaps the same I could not determine for sure). So I decided to create a page for both, perhaps I will discover…
~ Date of birth unknown William Adolphe Lambrecht was an illustrator of French spanking novels published by Charles Carrington in the early 1900s. It is likely but unsure that he is identical to the Belgian painter William Adolphe Lambrecht (1876–1940). Books illustrated by Lambrecht featured…
~ 1889 -1939 Luc Lafnet was born in 1889 in Liege, he died in 1939 in Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine). Luc Lafnet was a painter, printmaker and illustrator in France. He lived in Paris from 1923 till 1939, his works approached the abstract art. He used the…
~ Date of birth unknown ~ I could not find any information, it could be possible Charles Lafont is not even the illustrator for this book but as far as I could track back his name was connected to this book. 1 album/7 artworks To…
~ 1898 – 1963 Laffitte was a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator. His biography is quite incomplete. He was born in Barcelona where his father, Casimiro Canalejo Soler, an official in the Telegraph Corps, had settled when he remarried Carmen Sierra Laffitte in 1894. When she became…
~ 1899 – 1988 The pseudonym Marilac was used by Italian artists Mario Laboccetta for who I was unable to find a proper bio in English. So I tried to translate from Italian. He was born in Naples and became famous in Paris. During the…