Collection art and info from known and anonymous vintage artists
The French cartoonist Roger Testu (1913 – 2008), better known as Tetsu, 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 Figaro, France…
There is very little known about this artist, who is often referred to as Katou Kahoru. She was a female artist who worked for various Sm magazines like SM Mania and SM Secret Novels in the 80’s The artist passed away around 2015. Please log in to view the full…
George Grosz, born Georg Ehrenfried Groß, (1893 – 1959) 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 1900,…
Eric Stanton (1926 – 1999) was an American underground cartoonist and fetish art pioneer. While Stanton began his career as a bondage fantasy artist for Irving Klaw, the majority of his later work depicted gender role reversal and proto-feminist female dominance scenarios. Commissioned by Klaw starting in the late 1940s, his bondage…
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 Pratt Institute before diving…
Pierre Klossowski (1905 – 2001) 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 Surrealist…