Dark vintage erotica: twisted, mysterious and often disturbing fetish drawings.
~ Date of birth unknown There is nearly nothing to find for this artist. Jean-Pierre Dutel mentions Lapin was living in Eastern Europe around 1920, perhaps in Prague and the artist may have been Czech. There is one book known as illustrated by Lapin: Les erreurs de l’amour, which was…
~ 1879 – 1957 Edgard Tytgat was a Belgium expressionist painter, cover artist and engraver. He combined expressionism with a poetic, sometimes dreamy style. Tytgat spent his youth in Bruges, until the family moved to Brussels in 1888. After a failed attempt to become a clock-maker, he attended the Brussels…
~ 1880 – 1959 Edouard Chimot was a French artist, illustrator and editor whose career reached its peak in the 1920s in Paris, through the publication of fine quality art-printed books. As artist his own work occupies a characteristic place, but as editor also his role was extremely important in bringing together…
Mahlon Blaine (1894-1969) was an illustrator known for his fantasy artwork, though his life is surrounded by myths, including questionable claims of combat in WWI. A childhood accident left him partially blind, influencing his unique perspective. His documented injuries raise doubts about his war hero persona, with limited biographical accuracy available.
~ First published in 1899 The book Le Jardin des supplices (Garden of Torture) is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, and was first published in 1899 during the Dreyfus affair. The novel is dedicated: “To the priests, the soldiers, the judges, to those…