Sensual illustrations capturing desire, nudity, fantasy and sexual tension.
Arthur Ferrier (1891 – 1973) was a Scottish artist, illustrator and cartoonist. Ferrier was born and started work in Glasgow, Scotland as an analytical chemist. He freelanced as a cartoonist for the Daily Record there. He moved to London and drew joke cartoons for a number of weekly magazines, including Punch, The Humorist and London Opinion. In 1930, he…
Les 120 Journées de Sodome ou l’école du libertinage is an unfinished novel by the French writer and nobleman Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, written in 1785 and published in 1904 after its manuscript was rediscovered. It is described as both pornographic and erotic, its plot revolves around the…
Edgard Tytgat (1879 – 1957) 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 Fine…
Raoul Serres (1881 – 1971) was a French engraver and illustrator. He was a pupil of Jules Jacquet , Henri-Joseph Dubouchet and Léon Bonnat , Raoul Serres was a member of the Society of French Artists in 1906 and exhibited at the Salon of this group. He obtained an honorable mention in 1898 and…
Roger Jadot was a Belgian artist based in Brussels. In the 1950s, he created numerous sadomasochistic artworks, often with a strong emphasis on fetish and erotic themes. Much of his oeuvre remains unknown and unpublished. Under various pseudonyms, including Sérajat and most likely Joe Fifties, he illustrated for English and…
John Buckland Wright (1897–1954) was a British printmaker, painter and draughtsman. He worked principally as an etcher and engraver, and was self-taught. He studied history at Oxford and then architecture in London. He soon realised that he wanted to be an artist more than an architect and by 1921 he…