Sensual illustrations capturing desire, nudity, fantasy and sexual tension.
~ 1884 – 1950 Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement.In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit). This…
~ 1905 – 1984 Beresford Egan was a satirical draughtsman, painter, novelist, actor, costume designer and playwright. He was born in London but grew up in South Africa following a family move when he was five years old. He returned to London in July 1926…
~ 1879 – 1962 André Rouveyre was an early twentieth-century French writer, caricaturist, and graphic artist. A member of several culturally elite circles of his day, he is perhaps equally remembered as the subject of drawings by prominent European artists Henri Matisse and Amedeo Modigliani.…
~ 1935 – Pudgy Roberts (given name George Roberts) was or has been a professional impersonator since the late 1950s. He worked at the famous Jewel Box Lounge in Kansas City, the 82 Club in the East Village, NYC, and was the first female impersonator…
~ 1874 – 1944 Edmond Malassis was a French painter and illustrator.  He was a pupil of Gustave Moreau, and became a watercolourist. Malassis worked primarily in the first half of the 20th century. A prolific book illustrator, he did not do his own engravings. In…
~ 1895 – 1961 Marcel Vèrtes was a French costume designer and illustrator of Hungarian-Jewish origins. He won two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design) for his work on the 1952 film Moulin Rouge. He was born and raised in Budapest, during the interwar years he lived in Paris…
~ 1913 – 2008 The French cartoonist Roger Testu, better known as Tetsu. He started his career as a painter and in the 1950s started drawing cartoons, while continuing to paint. His first cartoon was published in Noir et Blanc in 1951, and he worked…
~ 1893 – 1959 George Grosz, born Georg Ehrenfried Groß, was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic.…