1 album/10 artworks – I was unable to find out anything at all about the artist Hageby other then the fact he (or she?) illustrated the book Au Royame du Fouet (ou Les Maîtresses impitoyables: grand roman de moeurs Masochistes) published in 1937 and written by Jim Galding.
Gerhard Georg August Gagelmann ( 1902 – 1964) was the quintessential Weimar illustrator: sharp, confident, and always in demand. Gert Gagelmann graduated with distinction from Berlin’s Reimann School in 1921, the same year his work first appeared in Der Brummer. In September 1924, at age 22, he married fellow artist…
Léon Roze (1869 – 1915) was a French spanking artist who worked in the 1900s and 1910s. At a very young age, he collaborated with the illustrated newspaper The Fin-de-siecle, and remained faithful to it from 1891 to 1905, then to around ten other periodicals including The Triboulet (1894), The…
In the fog‑filled studios of 1920s Paris, Gaston Smit worked with a pen that cut as sharply as a whip. From the late 1910s to the mid‑1930s, this elusive French illustrator (also publishing under the names Georges Topfer and James Barclay) produced more than a thousand drawings of sadomasochistic erotica. His work straddles…
Paul-Emile Becat (1885 – 1960) was a French painter, printmaker, and engraver who won first prize at the Prix de Rome in 1920. He trained under Gabriel Ferrier and François Flameng, and made his debut at the Salon de Paris as early as 1913. After travels to the Congo, Gabon,…
Leonor Fini (1907–1996) was an Argentine-Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful and erotic women. Fini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and taken to Trieste by her mother when she was 18 months old. In her early teens, an eye disease forced her to wear bandages on…