Beautiful vintage illustrations of rope, restraints, captivity and elegant helplessness.
Mario was a fetish artist who worked for a short period of time for Irving Klaw’s Movie Star News company. He drew two complete serials for Klaw and one unfinished, all are featured in the gallery below. Captives of the Scientists (1954) Rubber Queen’s Captives (1954) Prisoners of the Inquisition…
For this artist there is no info known. He (or she) illustrated the books Painful Pleasures and Invitation to the Dance (1935). The art from Painful Pleasures shows some resemblance to artworks stored in the Anonymous Spanking Gallery, see the album Anonymous Artist (1950) 2 albums/16 artworks To view premium…
~ 1887 – 1918 Aroldo Bonzagni was an Italian painter and draughtsman.His numerous drawings were influenced by the work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jean-Louis Forain and Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen, and above all by the style of the Munich and Vienna Secessions, known in Italy through the Venice Biennales of the early…
Roger Jadot, a Belgian artist from Brussels, was known for his sadomasochistic artworks with fetish themes in the 1950s. Living as a reclusive hermit, he held only one exhibition in the 1960s. Much of his work remains unpublished, and he also illustrated for magazines under pseudonyms like Sérajat and Joe Fifties.
~ 1897–1954 John Buckland Wright was a British printmaker, painter and draughtsman. He worked principally as an etcher and engraver, and was self-taught. He studied history at Oxford and then architecture in London. He soon realised that he wanted to be an artist more than an architect and by 1921…
~ First published in 1932 Esclavage, ou, L’agonie sous le fouet was first published in 1932, by Librairie Générale. Many illustrations are done by Carlo, but there are also a few illustrations from Gaston Smit and one artwork is from Jeo (Ely Costes) Album 1 by Carlo (1932) Album 2…