Timeless vintage BDSM erotica: rare drawings of whips, chains, leather and raw power dynamics.
Eric Stanton (1926 – 1999) was an American underground cartoonist and fetish art pioneer. While Stanton began his career as a bondage fantasy artist for Irving Klaw, the majority of his later work depicted gender role reversal and proto-feminist female dominance scenarios. Commissioned by Klaw starting in the late 1940s, his bondage…
Pierre Klossowski (1905 – 2001) was a French writer and artist whose Mannerist-inspired art explored homoerotism and sadomasochistic imagery. Though less well-known than his older brother Balthus, Klossowski has been the subject of a renewed critical interest following a 2015 retrospective exhibition at Gladstone Gallery in New York. Recalling the Surrealist…
In 1934 René Giffey illustrated for the book Cuir & Peau, in 1935 Sao-Chang created a different version from that specific artwork for the book Les Asservies de Slave Island, in 1935.
In 1981, the erotic album Punitions et Dressage was published by Jet Productions (Bagnolet). Both the text and the illustrations are credited to Jack Rhodes. Very little is known about the artist. No biographical details, photographs, or confirmed real name have surfaced, and “Jack Rhodes” is almost certainly a pseudonym. Attempts to uncover…
There is almost no information known for this artist other than that he (or she) illustrated for Irving Klaw.It is mentioned that this artist might have been of African descent. There is also a rumor that suggests the artist was in the illustration staff at comics published Fiction House, famous…
Boris Bergson (1927 – 1996) most likely started as illustrator for Irving Klaw’s Nutrix serie. His art does show some resemblance with the works from Gene Bilbrew and Eric Stanton but it is obvious the artist had his own style. Boris used the pseudonym Tom and I think he is…