Classic illustrations of female dominance, male submission and powerful women in control.
Cross-dressing is the act of wearing items of clothing not commonly associated with one’s sex. Cross-dressing has been used for purposes of disguise, comfort, and self-expression in modern times and throughout history. Almost every human society throughout history has had expected norms for each gender relating to style, color, or type of…
Edmond Malassis (1874 – 1944) was a French painter and illustrator.  He was a pupil of Gustave Moreau, and became a watercolourist. Malassis worked primarily in the first half of the 20th century. A prolific book illustrator, he did not do his own engravings. In 1935, he exhibited at the galerie…
Marcel Vèrtes (1895 – 1961) was a French costume designer and illustrator of Hungarian-Jewish origins. He won two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design) for his work on the 1952 film Moulin Rouge. He was born and raised in Budapest, during the interwar years he lived in Paris and when many artists fled Europe…
Hans Henrik Lerfeldt (1946 – 1989) was a Danish painter and graphic artist. He was educated at Academy of Fine Arts graphic school 1965-70 below Palle Nielsen. Hans Henrik Lerfeldt was an adoptive child and entered a very religious home. His adoptive father was a priest, and often left him…
The French cartoonist Roger Testu (1913 – 2008), better known as Tetsu, started his career as a painter and in the 1950s started drawing cartoons, while continuing to paint. His first cartoon was published in Noir et Blanc in 1951, and he worked extensively for magazines including Le Figaro, France…
George Grosz, born Georg Ehrenfried Groß, (1893 – 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. After his father’s death in 1900,…