Dark vintage erotica: twisted, mysterious and often disturbing fetish drawings.
Sadie Maso (sometimes spelled Sadie Mazo) remains one of the most fascinating figures in the underground world of 1930s–1950s French erotic illustration. Sadie was a pseudonym, likely belonging to a man (though I’d love it if a real femme fatale had been behind that pen) and worked in the shadows…
Luc Lafnet (1889 -1939) was born in in Liege, he died in 1939 in Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine). Luc Lafnet was a painter, printmaker and illustrator in France. He lived in Paris from 1923 till 1939, his works approached the abstract art. He used the aliases Jim Black, Lucas O.Viset for his…
Ernst Gerhard ((1867–1948) was a German sculptor, landscape painter and etcher, born in 1867 in Landau (Palatinate) and active mainly in Munich. After sculpture training with Christoph Roth (1886–89), he studied at the Munich Academy (1889–93) and the Académie Julian in Paris (1893–99). He exhibited with the Münchner Sezession, at…
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…