Beautiful vintage illustrations of rope, restraints, captivity and elegant helplessness.
John Alexander Scott Couts (1902 – 1962) 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 1942.Around…
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 Losfeld, François…
Paul-Emile Becat (1885 – 1960) 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, Gabon,…
Marquis Franz von Bayros (1866 – 1924) was born in Zagreb as the son of a Spanish noblemanOne of his erotic portfolios, ‘Erzahlungen vom Toilettentisch’ (‘Tales from the Dressing Table’), caused a courtcase and made Von Bayros famous. In 1911, the Munich police persecuted him because of his illustrations and…
When searching for new artists to add to my collection I come across many illustrated books with rare bdsm artworks. For some books, the illustrator has not yet been determined. Sometimes a name was provided, but no info was found for that name. In other cases, I did not find…