Timeless vintage BDSM erotica: rare drawings of whips, chains, leather and raw power dynamics.
In the smoky backrooms of late-1960s Paris, where censorship loosened and forbidden classics resurfaced, Yves Yorel emerged as a spectral talent. Nothing is known of the artist, no interviews, no biography, not even a whisper of a real name. Yorel exists solely through ink and desire, a pseudonym etched into…
Wighead ( 1896 – 1982) was an illustrator of femdom/femsub BDSM/spanking novels in the 1930s. Over the years I have seen more artwork that can be connected to Wighead, someone once told me that drawings with the signature E.K were not from Wighead but from Eugene Klementieff. Since I am…
Alexander Sandor Szekely (1901 – 1968) was a very well-known graphic artist who worked in Budapest, Vienna and Paris between 1920 and 1940. This arstist was well known for making erotic drawings, some of which made lots of money at auctions. He also illustrated Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales in…
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…
Gottfried Sieben (1856 – 1918) was born in Stockerau. He used the Pseudonym Archibald Smith, he was an Austrian painter, author and illustrator for many newspaper, magazines and erotic. He was student at the Vienna Acadamy, from 1880 illustrator at the satiric weekly magazine Floh and after that at the…
Otto Rudolf Schatz (1900 – 1961) was born in Vienna, Austria, and became a notable book illustrator, graphic artist, and painter who occupies an important place in European art of the first half of the twentieth century. From 1915 to 1918 he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna, where his teachers included…