Collection art and info from known and anonymous vintage artists
~ Date of birth unknown Davanzo. The name pops up in dusty corners of old French erotica catalogs, and if you blink, you’ll miss him. Italian, probably. Active in the 1920s and ’30s, mostly in Paris. He drew for the Collection des Orties Blanches, a wild series of underground novels…
~ Date of birth unknown ~ P. Fusty was a spanking artist who illustrated Le Tour d’Europe d’un Flagellant by Lord Birchisgood (1909). In the BNF library’s entry for this book, the illustrator’s name is misspelled P. Tiusty. This is definitely an error. P. Fusty is the correct name -…
~ Date of birth unknown Frédéric was a German artist who illustrated femdom/malesub BDSM stories, the era seems to stretch from 1930 till the end of 1960. Artworks were published in private and clandestine publications. The last years more art from this artist surfaces via auctions. Many refer to this…
~ 1884 – 1965 Léo Fontan was a versatile French painter, illustrator, and decorative artist whose elegant Art Deco style brought him recognition in mainstream circles, while under the pseudonym Fontana he created some of the most refined and sought-after vintage BDSM and spanking illustrations of the 1930s. Born on…
~ Date of birth unknown G. Whips, sometimes written G. Whip, also known under the name W. Floger, was a (probably French) artist who worked as an illustrator of French spanking novels in the 1920s and 1930s. There is some confusing with artist Edouard Bernard whose illustrations, made before 1920,…
~ 1891-1968 ~ Étienne Le Rallic was one of the most prominent French illustrators and realistic comic artists of the 1930s through the 1950s. His first drawings were published in Le Rire in 1910. Using the pseudonym R. Fanny, Etienne Le Rallic created M/F and F/F spanking art illustrations in…