Timeless vintage BDSM erotica: rare drawings of whips, chains, leather and raw power dynamics.
Michel Fingesten (1884 – 1943) was a Czech-Austrian painter and graphic artist of Jewish descent. He was one of the most original and prolific graphic artists and bookplates designers of the twentieth century.According to the Italian journalist and critic Giampiero Mughini, “Fingesten is to the history of the ex libris as Pablo Picasso…
Jean de Bosschère (1878 – 1953) was a Belgian writer and painter. Jean attended the École d’Horticulture in Ghent. In 1894, the family moved to Antwerp, where Jean attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1896 to 1900. Between 1901 and 1905, he regularly visited Paris where he met…
Albert Dubout (1905 – 1976) was born in Marseille. After attending school at Nîmes (where he met Jean Paulhan) he studied at the fine arts school in Montpellier where he met his first wife, Renée Altier, and where his first drawings were published in the student journal L’écho des étudiants…
François de Geetere (1895 – 1968) was born in Auderghem, a suburb of Brussels. He spent the war years in Utrecht  developing a distinctive surrealist style within a active artistic community which included artists such as Félicien Rops and René Magritte and a group of enthusiastic gallery owners and collectors; it was…