Collection art and info from known and anonymous vintage artists
~ 1913 – 2008 The French cartoonist Roger Testu, better known as Tetsu. He started his career as a painter and in the 1950s started drawing cartoons, while continuing to paint. His first cartoon was published in Noir et Blanc in 1951, and he worked extensively for magazines including Le…
~ 1893 – 1959 George Grosz, born Georg Ehrenfried Groß, was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. After his father’s death in…
Eric Stanton (1926-1999) was a groundbreaking American cartoonist and fetish art pioneer, known for his bondage fantasy artwork and themes of gender role reversal and female dominance. Active since the late 1940s, he collaborated with notable publishers and created numerous underground publications and fan works, influencing the fetish art scene significantly.
~ (1919 – 1998) William Hess Ward (1919–1998), affectionately known as Bill Ward, was a trailblazing American cartoonist and illustrator whose provocative “good girl” art captured the sultry spirit of mid-20th-century pin-up culture. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Ward honed his craft at the…
~ 1905 – 2001 Pierre Klossowski was a French writer and artist whose Mannerist-inspired art explored homoerotism and sadomasochistic imagery. Though less well-known than his older brother Balthus, Klossowski has been the subject of a renewed critical interest following a 2015 retrospective exhibition at Gladstone Gallery in New York. Recalling the…
~ 1911 – 1952 (not sure) Jacques le Tord seems to have been a painter from “Lyons School”, if the date of birth is correct I don’t know. There is really very little to find about this French artist. I found one bondage artwork and a serie with maid service…