Beautiful vintage illustrations of rope, restraints, captivity and elegant helplessness.
I managed to find a large collection of artworks that seem connected to the 50/55 edition. Please log in to view the full page To view all galleries and artworks please login of register if you are not yet a member of this site. Login – View Account – Register
Seiu Ito (1882 – 1961) also romanised as Seiyu Itoh, was a Japanese painter, recognised today as “the father of modern kinbaku” Ito was born Hajime Ito in Asakusa district and started his education in painting by 1890. His father was a metalworker and he also received training in ivory carving, later sculpture. He adopted the alias Seiu (Sino-Japanese reading of kanji for words ‘clear’ and ‘rain’)…
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. “Rubber Queen’s Captives” (1954) was an unfinished comic. Unlike his contemporaries Eric Stanton…
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) Please log in to view the…
Aroldo Bonzagni (1887 – 1918) 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 1900s….
Roger Jadot was a Belgian artist based in Brussels. In the 1950s, he created numerous sadomasochistic artworks, often with a strong emphasis on fetish and erotic themes. Much of his oeuvre remains unknown and unpublished. Under various pseudonyms, including Sérajat and most likely Joe Fifties, he illustrated for English and…