Beautiful vintage illustrations of rope, restraints, captivity and elegant helplessness.
L. Tessier was a spanking artist who illustrated French spanking novels. Tessier’s style is pure black and white lineart with no shades of grey. There is nearly nothing known about this artist despite the books he illustrated: Illustrations from the book Mémoires sentimentales and one from the book Les Caveaux…
Alexander Sandor Szekely (1901 – 1968) was a very well-known graphic artist who worked in Budapest, Vienna and Paris between 1920 and 1940. This arstist was well known for making erotic drawings, some of which made lots of money at auctions. He also illustrated Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales in…
In the fog‑filled studios of 1920s Paris, Gaston Smit worked with a pen that cut as sharply as a whip. From the late 1910s to the mid‑1930s, this elusive French illustrator (also publishing under the names Georges Topfer and James Barclay) produced more than a thousand drawings of sadomasochistic erotica. His work straddles…
Joe Shuster (1914 – 1992) was born in Toronto, Canada. At the age of nine, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio where he would later meet Jerome Siegel, with whom he would become a creative partner. Siegel and Shuster created a hero character which later became famous as Superman. The…
Otto Rudolf Schatz (1900 – 1961) was born in Vienna, Austria, and became a notable book illustrator, graphic artist, and painter who occupies an important place in European art of the first half of the twentieth century. From 1915 to 1918 he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna, where his teachers included…
Pierre Noël (1903 – 1981) was born into a world of brass buttons and rigid honor. His paternal grandfather had been a naval officer; his maternal grandfather, a cavalry general. The family—monarchist, devoutly Catholic, and steeped in tradition—valued art but kept it on a short leash. Young Pierre attended strict…