~ First published in 1904 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…
Erotic
Sensual illustrations capturing desire, nudity, fantasy and sexual tension.
Edgart Tytgat
~ 1879 – 1957 Edgart Tytgat 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…
Raoul Serres
~ 1881 – 1971 Raoul Serres 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…
Roger Jadot
Roger Jadot, a Belgian artist from Brussels, was known for his sadomasochistic artworks with fetish themes in the 1950s. Living as a reclusive hermit, he held only one exhibition in the 1960s. Much of his work remains unpublished, and he also illustrated for magazines under pseudonyms like Sérajat and Joe Fifties.
John Buckland Wright
~ 1897–1954 John Buckland Wright 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…
André Collot
~ 1897 – 1976 André Collot was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator whose career spanned several decades. At first glance, his work might not immediately suggest a strong connection to BDSM or fetish themes. However, his illustrations for the infamous 1931/1936 edition of the…
Edouard Chimot
~ 1880 – 1959 Edouard Chimot was a French artist, illustrator and editor whose career reached its peak in the 1920s in Paris, through the publication of fine quality art-printed books. As artist his own work occupies a characteristic place, but as editor also his role was…
Gerda Wegener
~ 1886 – 1940 Gerda Marie Fredrikke Wegener (née Gottlieb) was a Danish illustrator and painter. Wegener is known for her fashion illustrations and later her paintings that pushed the boundaries of gender and love of her time. These works were classified as Lesbian erotica…