Classic illustrations of female dominance, male submission and powerful women in control.
Les Callipyges, ou les Délices de la verge is a classic late-nineteenth-century French flagellation novel. It centres on a small group of fashionable English ladies (the Callipyges) who share both an exceptional physical attribute and an enthusiastic devotion to the birch and the martinet. Under the guidance of experienced schoolmistresses,…
Toyen (born Marie Čermínová, 1902–1980) was a Czech painter, draughtsperson and illustrator, and one of the most singular and radical figures of European Surrealism. Adopting the gender-neutral pseudonym Toyen in the early 1920s, the artist rejected conventional feminine identity and moved freely between masculine and feminine presentation, both in life…
László Boris (1897–1924) was a Hungarian graphic artist, illustrator, caricaturist, and etcher whose brief career left a distinctive mark on early 20th-century erotic and satirical art. Born in Budapest in 1897, Boris studied art in his hometown before spending time in Paris. During World War I he produced military maps…
Attila Sassy (1880 – 1967) also known under the pseudonym Aiglon, was a versatile Hungarian painter, graphic artist, and illustrator whose work bridges Art Nouveau, Symbolism, and early 20th-century erotic art. Born in Miskolc and active mainly in Budapest, he studied in Paris and Munich, absorbing influences from artists like…
Alméry Lobel-Riche (1877 – 1950) was a French painter, engraver, and illustrator renowned for his masterful etchings and evocative depictions of sensuality, decadence, and the intimate undercurrents of human desire. The art of Alméry Lobel-Riche is characterized by a troubled and troubling atmosphere of decadent sensuality, and is very much…
Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, better known as Rojan (1891–1970), was a Russian émigré illustrator who excelled in two seemingly opposite worlds: the gentle, colorful illustrations for children’s books and the sensual, often explicitly erotic art for adults. Born on December 24, 1891, in Mitava (present-day Jelgava, Latvia) in the Russian Empire,…