Classic illustrations of female dominance, male submission and powerful women in control.
Venus in Furs (German: Venus im Pelz) is a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works. The novel was to be part of an epic series that Sacher-Masoch envisioned called Legacy of Cain (Das Vermächtniß Kains) which was never published.Venus in Furs…
This enigmatic artist, signed in a way that can be read as either A.W or R.W (and in some older references possibly R.O), remains one of the most intriguing mysteries in vintage fetish and BDSM illustration. As a non-expert in deciphering signatures from this period, I find it genuinely difficult…
Despite the extended research I did I was unable to find any information about the illustrator Gyl Bertie or Gyl Bert, who illustrated the book Imperieuse Volupté ou l’Affolante Servitude, published in 1935 and written by Jim Galding. One of the artworks (the last one) in the album I created…
Mahlon Blaine (1894 – 1969) is known for Illustrator-books, fantasy genre, there are many stories floating about this artist based on false biographies. A childhood accident left the artist blind in his left eye, an accident that contributes to the flattened perspective that marks his work. Blaine however alleged to…
Xavier Sager (1870 – 1930) was a popular French artist who made over 3000 illustrations. Many of his art was printed as postcards. There is no consensus about his date of birth and death, some say he was born in 1881 and died in 1969. Some also say there were…
Suzanne Ballivet (1904 – 1985) was born in Paris, only daughter of Jules and Laurentine Ballivet. Her father was a photographer in Montpellier, in the south of France. She did her secondary studies in Montpellier and was a student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Montpellier. In 1925 she…