Sadie Mazo

9 albums/64 artworks – Sadie Maso (sometimes spelled Sadie Mazo) remains one of the most fascinating figures in the underground world of 1930s–1950s French erotic illustration. Sadie was a pseudonym, likely belonging to a man (though I’d love it if a real femme fatale had been behind that pen) and worked in the shadows of clandestine publishers like Éditions Gauloise. That was the domain of figures such as Léon Victor Vidal, who used his bookshops to push not only lingerie catalogs but also these forbidden fruits. Sadie’s illustrations appeared in a handful of iconic titles, usually featuring 8 to 12 plates per book that brought the stories vividly to life. Notably, Sadie collaborated with the illustrator Sao Chang on several…

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