What’s new
Up yours
20th November 2023
After much work collecting, collating and improving the images, we bring you today the most complete known collection of 1940s klismaphilia, the erotic use of the enema. A niche kink, but a fascinating one! See the whole Hintern Hoch portfolio now by clicking here.
Sweet innocence
17th November 2023
Pierre Louÿs’ short prose narratives and André Dignimont’s sensitive drawings of young women are the perfect partnership for the 1925 limited edition collection Quatorze Images (Fourteen Pictures). You can see all the illustrations now by clicking here.
Erotika
16th November 2023
A 1940s amuse-bouche for you today, an anonymous portfolio of well-executed sexual fantasies, probably by a Czech artist. All the usual encounters, plus a daring threesome – see them all now by clicking here.
Come up and see my etchings …
15th November 2023
Not the most explicitly erotic images by today’s standards, but in the late 18th century Charles Eisen was the leading French engraver illustrating libertine texts. See the complete plates for Boccaccio’s Decameron and La Fontaine’s stories now by clicking here.
Right royal goings on
14th November 2023
What was it about Spain’s plump Queen Isabella II, her husband Francisco de Paula and her confessor Antonio Maria Claret that was so attractive to 1860s political satirist Valeriano Domínguez Bécquer? Find out and see all his explicit watercolours now by clicking here.
Roman justice?
13th November 2023
It’s a great pleasure to bring you all a new portfolio by Raoul Serres, aka Schem. It’s his illustrations for a 1949 edition of La porte de l’âne (The Donkey Gate), the story of the fate of Antonia, an (understandably) unfaithful Roman woman. See them all now by clicking here.
Double take
7th November 2023
Twisted humour and telling visual juxtapositions – that’s the work of today’s new artist, San Francisco-based Mitsu Okubo, with his deceptively simple drawings and collages. But every one is worth a second look. See them all now by clicking here.
Sex in Venice
6th November 2023
Thanks to two lovely friends we now have both versions – colour and duotone – of Georges Drain’s enchanting illustrations for the Marquis de Sade’s Le bordel de Venise (The Venice Brothel). Only eight of them, but true 1920s French classics. See them all now by clicking here.
Sex Parisian-style
5th November 2023
One of the best-known Parisian magazine artists of the early twentieth century, Zygmunt Brunner only illustrated two erotic classics – and we have both of them. See his stylish portfolios for Gamiani and Le Diable au Corps now by clicking here.
The complexity of the engaged artist
3rd November 2023
Brilliant painter, philosopher, social activist, obsessive bibliophile, ardent lover of women – that’s today’s remarkable new artist, Robert Lenkiewicz. A complex and driven painter who put himself at the heart of his local community, see his work now by clicking here.