Davanzo

2 albums/19 artworks – 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 that were basically the Playboy of spanking and BDSM back when that kind of thing could land you in jail.Most collectors and historians think “Davanzo” was a fake name for Mario Laboccetta, an Italian illustrator who also went by Marilac and maybe even Wighead. Using aliases kept the cops and censors away.But perhaps the artist using the name Davanzo is the same as Arthur Felix Joseph Treichler (who also used Davanzo…

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