Sensual illustrations capturing desire, nudity, fantasy and sexual tension.
~ 1891 – 1958 Alfons Walde was an Austrian artist and architect. Walde is known best for his winter landscapes and farming images, especially skiing and sporting scenes, painted in tempera or impastoed oil paint. Many of his paintings can be seen in the Museum…
~ 1903 – 1976 Antoni Uniechowski was a highly accomplished Polish illustrator, best known in his homeland for his elegant book illustrations, posters, and theatre scenography. Born in 1903 in Vilnius (then part of the Russian Empire), he endured a difficult childhood marked by frequent…
~ 1886 – 1939 Boris Grigoriev was a painter, graphic artist, and writer. He studied at the Stroganov Art School from 1903 to 1907 with Dmitry Shcherbinovsky. Grigoriev went on to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg from 1907 to 1912.…
Jean de Bosschère (1878 – 1953) was a Belgian writer and painter. Jean attended the École d’Horticulture in Ghent. In 1894, the family moved to Antwerp, where Jean attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1896 to 1900. Between 1901 and 1905, he regularly…
~ First published in 1748 Thérèse Philosophe (Therese the Philosopher) is a 1748 French novel ascribed to Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens. It has been chiefly regarded as a pornographic novel, which accounts for its massive sales in 18th-century France. I did some research to find various artworks by…
François de Geetere (1895-1968), born in Brussels, developed a unique surrealist style in Utrecht during the war, influenced by notable artists like Magritte. His etchings reflect themes of conflicted sexuality and existential dread. Despite his talent, he lost popularity, prompting him to title his memoirs “The man who forgot to die.”
~ 1883 – 1965 Elie Georges Marie Villa was born in Montmédy, the Meuse, Lorraine, France on January 24, 1883. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais. Vila was a prolific painter, engraver, lithographer, poster…
~ 1876 – 1917 Raphael Kirchner was born in Vienna, Austria, and attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He moved to Paris in the year 1900, making illustrations for such magazines as La Vie Parisienne.In 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, Kirchner moved…