Timeless vintage BDSM erotica: rare drawings of whips, chains, leather and raw power dynamics.
Charles Maxwel Plaisted (1902 – 1956) was an American illustrator and comic artist best known for his work in the “spicy” pulp magazines of the 1930s and early comic books. Born in Penn Yan, New York, Plaisted studied at the University of Pennsylvania (1919–1923) and later at the Art Students…
Toyen (born Marie Čermínová, 1902–1980) was a Czech painter, draughtsperson and illustrator, and one of the most singular and radical figures of European Surrealism. Adopting the gender-neutral pseudonym Toyen in the early 1920s, the artist rejected conventional feminine identity and moved freely between masculine and feminine presentation, both in life…
– 2 albums/16 artworks – Jules-Arsène Garnier was a French painter, illustrator and engraver, born in Paris on 12 January 1847 and died there on 25 December 1889. A pupil of the celebrated academic master Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (after earlier studies in Toulouse), he…
Bisare is an extremely obscure American underground publication issued in Chicago in the early to mid-1940s. Produced by the shadowy imprint Press Esquire, it appeared as a numbered series of small digests, each containing a fresh set of illustrations devoted exclusively to the themes of flagellation, chaining, bondage and spanking….
Attila Sassy (1880 – 1967) also known under the pseudonym Aiglon, was a versatile Hungarian painter, graphic artist, and illustrator whose work bridges Art Nouveau, Symbolism, and early 20th-century erotic art. Born in Miskolc and active mainly in Budapest, he studied in Paris and Munich, absorbing influences from artists like…
Alméry Lobel-Riche (1877 – 1950) was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator renowned for his masterful etchings and evocative depictions of sensuality, decadence, and the intimate undercurrents of human desire. The art of Alméry Lobel-Riche is characterized by a troubled and troubling atmosphere of decadent sensuality, and is very much…