Sensual illustrations capturing desire, nudity, fantasy and sexual tension.
William Andrew Pogany (1882 – 1955) – born Vilmos András Feichtmann (or Feuchtmann) – was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children’s and other books. He is best known for his pen and ink drawings of myths and fables. A large portion of Pogany’s work is described as Art Nouveau. Pogany’s artistic style is heavily fairy-tale orientated…
Leonor Fini (1907–1996) was an Argentine-Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful and erotic women. Fini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and taken to Trieste by her mother when she was 18 months old. In her early teens, an eye disease forced her to wear bandages on…
Thomas Leycester Poulton (1897 – 1963) was a British magazine and medical illustrator who provided artwork for a range of publications including the British Journal of Surgery and The Radio Times. After his death it was discovered that he had also secretly produced hundreds of sketches and finished drawings of men and women engaged…
Alfons Walde (1891 – 1958) 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 gallery in Kitzbühel. Walde was born…
Antoni Uniechowski (1903 – 1976) 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 illness, which kept him bedridden for…
Boris Grigoriev (1886 – 1939) 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. He began exhibiting his work in…