Art Gallery

Collection art and info from known and anonymous vintage artists

  • Antoine Borel

    Antoine Borel (1743 – 1810) was a French painter, draftsman and engraver. As the son of a portrait painter, he first devoted himself to the same kind of painting (landscapes and portraits) but then he was also fascinated by the challenges of engraving. He became quite good in engraving nudes…

  • C. Helsey

    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…

  • E. Klem

    Eugene Klementieff – Evgenii Klementiev – (1901 – 1985) was a Russian painter and illustrator who grew up in St Petersburg. He moved to Paris early in 1930. He was a famous artist, designer, and illustrator who used the signature E.Klem, or just E.K. Sometimes he did not use a…

  • Zurriago

    There is not much I could found about this Spanish illustrator other then the fact that he used a pseudonym for illustrating the book La flagelación erótica, published in Barcelona in 1932.Zurriago is valued as one of the most important Spanish BDSM illustrators in the first decades of 20th Century….

  • Zarhat

    In the bustling streets of 1920s‑and‑1930s Barcelona, where Art Deco façades rose beside the scent of fresh ink and the chatter of newsstands, a vibrant generation of illustrators captured the pulse of a changing Spain. Among them hides a name that seldom receives the spotlight, yet whose bold, evocative strokes leave…

  • Yves Yorel

    In the smoky backrooms of late-1960s Paris, where censorship loosened and forbidden classics resurfaced, Yves Yorel emerged as a spectral talent. Nothing is known of the artist, no interviews, no biography, not even a whisper of a real name. Yorel exists solely through ink and desire, a pseudonym etched into…