Unique collection vintage bdsm art, artists and illustrated books
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 was an outgrowth of Expressionism. …
~ 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 after spending two years as …
~ 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. Having met Matisse in Gustave …
~ 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 to be a featured act …
~ 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 1935, he exhibited at the …
~ 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 and when many artists fled …