Beautiful vintage illustrations of rope, restraints, captivity and elegant helplessness.
~ 1884 – 1965 Léo Fontan was a versatile French painter, illustrator, and decorative artist whose elegant Art Deco style brought him recognition in mainstream circles, while under the pseudonym Fontana he created some of the most refined and sought-after vintage BDSM and spanking illustrations of the 1930s. Born on…
~ Date of birth unknown G. Whips, sometimes written G. Whip, also known under the name W. Floger, was a (probably French) artist who worked as an illustrator of French spanking novels in the 1920s and 1930s. There is some confusing with artist Edouard Bernard whose illustrations, made before 1920,…
~ 1891-1968 ~ Étienne Le Rallic was one of the most prominent French illustrators and realistic comic artists of the 1930s through the 1950s. His first drawings were published in Le Rire in 1910. Using the pseudonym R. Fanny, Etienne Le Rallic created M/F and F/F spanking art illustrations in…
~ 1902 – 1962 John Alexander Scott Couts was born in Singapore and grew up in England.In the mid-1930s, he began working for a Sydney-based fetish club as an illustrator and photographer; around this time he began a relationship with Holly Faram, one of his models, and they married in…
~ unsure Carlo was a French illustrator who’s real name is unknown. It is assumed he worked as cartoonist for the Magazine Humor using the pseudonym Charléno. Some mention this was the artist Charles Antoine Odis (1877-1936): In n°5 of the magazine Le Visage vert, published in 1998 by Joëlle…
~ 1885 – 1960 Paul-Emile Becat was a French painter, printmaker, and engraver who won first prize at the Prix de Rome in 1920. He trained under Gabriel Ferrier and François Flameng, and made his debut at the Salon de Paris as early as 1913. After travels to the Congo,…