Timeless vintage BDSM erotica: rare drawings of whips, chains, leather and raw power dynamics.
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…
Touko Valio Laaksonen (1920 – 1991), known by the pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art, and influenced late 20th-century gay culture. He has been called the “most influential creator of gay pornographic images” by cultural historian Joseph W. Slade. Over the…
Raymond van Doren (1906 – 1991) was a Belgian painter, graphic designer and art photographer. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (1925-1928; with H. Van Haelen and A. Bastien) and with Isidore Opsomer at the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp. As a…
Chevalier Fortunino Matania (1881 -1963) was an Italian artist noted for his realistic portrayal of World War I trench warfare and of a wide range of historical subjects. Fortunino Matania studied at his father’s studio, designing a soap advertisement at the age of 9 and exhibiting his first work at Naples…
Leonor Fini (1907–1996) was an Argentine-Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful and erotic women. Fini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and taken to Trieste by her mother when she was 18 months old. In her early teens, an eye disease forced her to wear bandages on…