Dark vintage erotica: twisted, mysterious and often disturbing fetish drawings.
Pierre Klossowski (1905 – 2001) was a French writer and artist whose Mannerist-inspired art explored homoerotism and sadomasochistic imagery. Though less well-known than his older brother Balthus, Klossowski has been the subject of a renewed critical interest following a 2015 retrospective exhibition at Gladstone Gallery in New York. Recalling the Surrealist…
Milivoj Uzelac (1897 – 1977) was a influential painter in the Zagreb modern art scene in the 1920s and 30s. Milivoj Uzelac was born in Mostar to a Serbian family, which was then part of Austria-Hungary. In 1903, the family moved to Banja Luka. At the gymnasium there, he started…
Max Klinger (1857 – 1920) was a German artist who produced significant work in painting, sculpture, prints and graphics, as well as writing a treatise articulating his ideas on art and the role of graphic arts and printmaking in relation to painting. He is associated with symbolism, the Vienna Secession,…
Raymond van Doren (1906 – 1991) was a Belgian painter, graphic designer and art photographer. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (1925-1928; with H. Van Haelen and A. Bastien) and with Isidore Opsomer at the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp. As a…
Chevalier Fortunino Matania (1881 -1963) was an Italian artist noted for his realistic portrayal of World War I trench warfare and of a wide range of historical subjects. Fortunino Matania studied at his father’s studio, designing a soap advertisement at the age of 9 and exhibiting his first work at Naples…
Leonor Fini (1907–1996) was an Argentine-Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful and erotic women. Fini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and taken to Trieste by her mother when she was 18 months old. In her early teens, an eye disease forced her to wear bandages on…