Classic vintage gay erotica: powerful male nudes, leather, bondage and underground homoerotic masterpieces.
Sergei Eistenstein (1898 – 1948) is best known as the director of landmark films such as Battleship Potemkin and the theorist who invented montage as collision, Eisenstein also left behind hundreds of private erotic drawings. Executed in ink and pencil during the 1930s and 1940s, these works remain far less…
Tsuyoshi Yoshida (1924 – 1988) known by the pen name Go Mishima (三島剛, Mishima Go), was a Japanese homoerotic fetish artist and founder of the magazine Sabu. Mishima was born in 1924 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. At 18, he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army, where he had his first homosexual experience with his commanding officer. Upon…
Pierre Klossowski (1905 – 2001) was a French writer and artist whose Mannerist-inspired art explored homoerotism and sadomasochistic imagery. Though less well-known than his older brother Balthus, Klossowski has been the subject of a renewed critical interest following a 2015 retrospective exhibition at Gladstone Gallery in New York. Recalling the Surrealist…
Touko Valio Laaksonen (1920 – 1991), known by the pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art, and influenced late 20th-century gay culture. He has been called the “most influential creator of gay pornographic images” by cultural historian Joseph W. Slade. Over the…
Elisà r August Emanuel von Kupffer (1872 – 1942) was a Baltic German artist, anthologist, poet, historian, translator, and playwright. He used the pseudonym “Elisarion” for most of his writings.From an early age he was in delicate health, having suffered through meningitis, rheumatoid arthritis, scarlet fever and measles. However he was…