We are used to group exhibitions in art galleries, but group portfolios of prints or illustrations are uncommon. This category currently only contains three such collections, the pioneering 1909 Munich-published Der Phönix, the 1913 French art portfolio La beauté de la femme, and the 1935 French portfolio L’érotisme, but we shall add more as they appear on our radar.


Some of the artists included in the group portfolios

Carlègle – Swiss-French illustrator of fine erotic editions.
Édouard Chimot – French illustrator and editor of refined erotic livre d'artiste editions.
Franz Christophe – German Jugendstil illustrator of decorative erotic subjects.
Jean Cocteau – French poet and artist of elegant homoerotic line drawings.
André Collot – French interwar illustrator of fine livre d'artiste editions.
André Dignimont – French interwar illustrator of Parisian low-life and erotic subjects.
Tsuguharu Foujita – Japanese-French École de Paris painter of milky-white naked figures and cats.
Willi Geiger – German printmaker of refined erotic subjects.
Chas Laborde – French illustrator and caricaturist of lively Parisian street scenes.
Mariette Lydis – Austrian-French illustrator of refined erotic subjects in interwar Paris.
Albert Marquet – French Fauvist painter who also made intimate erotic drawings.
Charles Martin – French art-deco illustrator of refined fashion and erotic subjects.
Jules Pascin – Bulgarian-French painter of Parisian erotic and bohemian subjects.
Sylvain Sauvage – French art-deco illustrator-typographer of refined livre d'artiste editions.
Konstantin Somov – Russian Mir Iskusstva painter of rococo-erotic scenes.
Kees van Dongen – Dutch-French Fauvist painter of demimonde subjects.
Marcel Vertès – Hungarian-French illustrator of fashionable Parisian and amorous subjects.

 

 

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