9 albums/112 artworks – 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. Katou Kahoru ←
Bal-Tit is an enigmatic figure in the world of vintage erotica, known primarily for his (or her) illustrations in the 1938 novel Le Joug Séducteur by René-Michel Desergy, a French author of sado-masochistic literature. Virtually nothing is known about Bal-Tit’s true identity, as the name appears to be a pseudonym,…
A few days ago I stumbled across a coloured artwork that felt oddly familiar. It turned out to be a coloured remake of an original piece by Wighead, and the subtle alterations opened a whole new layer of meaning. The Original Sketch – Wighead’s Curvy Model The Coloured Remake –…
There is not much I could found about this Spanish illustrator other then the fact that he used a pseudonym for illustrating the book La flagelación erótica, published in Barcelona in 1932.Zurriago is valued as one of the most important Spanish BDSM illustrators in the first decades of 20th Century….
Rudolf Preuss (1879 – 1961) was a very well-known landscape painter. Particularly popular were his views of Alpine villages and various locations in the former Austrian-Hungarian Empire. From 1946 to 1958 he was the president of the tyrolean artist’s society (Tiroler Künstlerschaft). Besides watercolor landscapes and architecture paintings, Rudolf Preuss…
This enigmatic artist, signed in a way that can be read as either A.W or R.W (and in some older references possibly R.O), remains one of the most intriguing mysteries in vintage fetish and BDSM illustration. As a non-expert in deciphering signatures from this period, I find it genuinely difficult…
Doctor Jean Morisotn (1899 – 1967) writing under the pseudonym Jean Sauteval, is widely regarded as a master of ex-erotica, blending a surgeon’s precision with an artist’s flair. His works, numbering over one hundred, exude a distinctive voyeuristic charm and a playful, paillard style. Vibrant and adorned with ribbons, they…