Yves Yorel
1 album/27 artworks – In the smoky backrooms of late-1960s Paris, where censorship loosened and forbidden classics resurfaced, Yves Yorel emerged as a spectral talent. Nothing is known of the artist, no interviews, no biography, not even a whisper of a real name. Yorel exists solely through ink and desire, a pseudonym etched into the margins of erotic publishing history.The sole confirmed work: Justine, ou les malheurs de la vertu (Charles Bertrand, 1969). Within its gilt-edged pages, Yorel delivered 36 original compositions: vibrant, explicit plates and in-text vignettes in color. Figures twist in ecstatic torment; shadows cling to bare skin; every line drips with Sade’s cruel poetry. Limited to 432 numbered copies,some signed by the artist, these editions remain coveted…
