Tom of Finland

Édouard Chimot

Walter Bird

ZICHY

Painter, graphic artist. He was a significant representative of Hungarian romantic painting. During his law studies in Pest from 1842, he attended Jakab Marastoni's school as well. In Vienna he was Waldmüller's pupil in 1844. "Life Boat", his first major work, comes from this time. On Waldmüller's recommendation, he became an art teacher in St. Petersburg. He swore allegiance to freedom by painting the portrait of Lajos Batthány, the first Hungarian prime minister, in 1849. From 1850 onwards, he worked as a retoucher, but he also did pencil drawings, water colours and portraits in oil. The series on the Gatsina hunting ordered by the Russian tsar raised him to a court artist. He founded a society to support painters in need. "Autodafé" on the horrors of Spanish inquisition was painted in 1868. He travelled around Europe in 1871, and settled down in Paris in 1874.
He painted "Queen Elisabeth is Laying Flowers by the Coffin of Ferenc Deák" on Treffort's order. "Drinking Bout of Henry III", his next large scale picture came from 1875. "The Victory of the Genius of Destruction" painted for the Paris Exhibition was banned by French authorities because of its daring antimilitarist message. He left Paris in 1881 and returned to St. Petersburg after short stays in Nizza, Vienna and the county Zala. From this time onwards, he was mostly engaged in illustrations ("The Tragedy of Man" by Madách, 1887, and twenty-four ballads of János Arany, 1894-98).

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It is thought that these drawings date from the mid-1870s, when Zichy was in Paris. The artist travelled widely, and also worked in Vienna, and in St. Petersburg, where he became court painter to Czar Alexander II. We read, also, that he ‘founded a society to support painters in need’.

Painter, graphic artist. He was a significant representative of Hungarian romantic painting. During his law studies in Pest from 1842, he attended Jakab Marastoni's school as well. In Vienna he was Waldmüller's pupil in 1844. "Life Boat", his first major work, comes from this time. On Waldmüller's recommendation, he became an art teacher in St. Petersburg. He swore allegiance to freedom by painting the portrait of Lajos Batthány, the first Hungarian prime minister, in 1849. From 1850 onwards, he worked as a retoucher, but he also did pencil drawings, water colours and portraits in oil. The series on the Gatsina hunting ordered by the Russian tsar raised him to a court artist. He founded a society to support painters in need. "Autodafé" on the horrors of Spanish inquisition was painted in 1868. He travelled around Europe in 1871, and settled down in Paris in 1874.He painted "Queen Elisabeth is Laying Flowers by the Coffin of Ferenc Deák" on Treffort's order. "Drinking Bout of Henry III", his next large scale picture came from 1875. "The Victory of the Genius of Destruction" painted for the Paris Exhibition was banned by French authorities because of its daring antimilitarist message. He left Paris in 1881 and returned to St. Petersburg after short stays in Nizza, Vienna and the county Zala. From this time onwards, he was mostly engaged in illustrations ("The Tragedy of Man" by Madách, 1887, and twenty-four ballads of János Arany, 1894-98).

The English Academy
by Mihaly von Zichy


One of the most exciting finds made in the field of erotica in recent years has unearthed a text that appears to complement a famous set of erotic drawings. These are by the aristocratic Mihaly von Zichy, painter to the court of Czar Alexander II and illustrator of Byron and Lermontov: they probably date to the artist's stay in Paris around 1870. The anonymous manuscript of The English Academy was recently discovered on the Continent by a rare book dealer and brought to the attention of the Society. It is in the form of an unrestrained memoir looking back on the author's days as a Paris art student. Zichy's drawings, with their exquisitely observed anatomy and wonderful evocation of atmosphere, still have the power to arouse and inspire. He retains a special place in the pantheon of erotic artists.

'Taking my swollen cock in my right hand, I guided the head towards her lips. I dallied with her a little longer, rubbing the crimson head of my cock up and down the little groove and over and around her clitoris, at which she bucked and moaned ever more urgently. And at last, it was she, not I, who seized the moment, and reaching her hands down, she took hold of my member and drove herself hard against it, impaling herself upon me with a stifled scream.'

http://www.eroticprints.org/zichyenglish.asp

MAHLON BLAINE

The illustrator of many of De Sade's works, and a compelling erotic sexual sadist in his own artistic right, Blaine has few followers today.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs'
The Moon Men (Moon Maid)

Edgar Rice Burroughs'
The Land That Time Forgot

Ren Wicks

Williams

The adverts for ladies underwear, alcohol, and even things as innocuous as "Ice Skating" were all accomplished by the same great guys who were creating naughty napkins, Esquire nudies, and packaging for baby supplies.

George Petty

Walter Popp

MANY of us created our fantasies and our images of what we were sexually attracted to when we were pre-teens and teens reading Sci-Fi and mens magazines...
the great graphic artists of the time were really twisted- thank heavens!

Earl Cordrey

Dean Cornwell

Fritz Willis

Peridoical Art from the 40's

Adult art of Ancient Pompeii

Long before our current administration was shocked and embarassed by SEX, the rest of the world was comfortable with expressing sexuality in the arts.


This site has some GREAT pics of the ancient erotica of the Greek Empire.
http://killingthemessenger.com/stuff/eroticpompei/index.htm

Fine Art For Auction 7/7/7

The local Erotic artist Adami has donated ALL of these lovely works of art to the 3rd annual Valley Fundraiser produced by SX each year. Find out more HERE on how to own one of these great pieces!

Pichard

VanMaele

Martin Van Maele, AKA Rene Gockinga,

(1863-1926) was a seriously twisted Frenchman. i have been holding on to these for months (since the blog was opened) seeking out more info, but his life is *sketchy*.



He was a Belgian artist and student from Felicien Rops. Martin van Maele was a creator of differing erotic series that are known for their satiric esprit. He worked exclusively on erotic art.














Wikipedia says...." About the life of Martin van Maele, not much is known. Van Maele worked at Brussels as well as Paris, and his best known work – consisting among other things of an illustrated edition of Paul Verlaine's poems – was published in small, secretive editions by publisher Charles Carrington. The prints are considered both humoristic and satirical, somtimes cynical.










Van Maele's career is said to have really began with his illustrations for H.G. Wells in Les Premiers Hommes dans la Lune (or First Men On The Moon), published by Felix Juven in 1901. The title later became the classic 1902 sci-fi silent film called Le Voyage Dans La Lune, produced by Georges Méliès.












Van Maele also illustrated Anatole France's Thais, published by Charles Carrington, also in 1901. The following year, and ocassionaly thereafter, Van Maele worked as an illustrator for the Felix Juven's French translations of the Sherlock Holmes series."

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His total production has been small, consisting mostly of book illustrations. Among collectors his 'Grande danse macabre des vifs' is best known. This 'Big danse macabre of the living' consists of four series, each containing ten prints. Mousbit presents three series. Van Maele worked at Brussels as well as Paris, and his best known work – consisting among other things of an illustrated edition of Paul Verlaine's poems – was published in small, clandestine editions by publisher Charles Carrington.













Probably Carrington has also been the publisher of the series of the Big Danse Macabre, around 1905. It's almost sure that the edition was less than a 100 copies. The prints are both humoristic and satirical, somtimes cynical. The realism of the 'fin de siècle' is alternated with the erotic symbolism, of which Félicien Rops was a master too. By presenting his prints with the title 'Danse Macabre' van Maele made a connection with the medieval danses macabres, in which Death shows up to fetch a mortal.

In van Maele's work Death has been replaced by the more abstract notion of sexuality. In the case of the medieval prints their meaning mostly was a Memento Mori (Remember thou willst die), but van Maele's prints seem to show the message that sexuality - in all its shapes and even excesses, in the young and the old – just like Death can't be avoided.

Van Maele illustrated Charles Carrington's belle epoque flagellation novels and ranks high for technique amidst his peers such as Rowlandson, Beardsley, et al. This private work and elements of his "La Grande Danse Macabre des Vifs" is dark, brooding, seriously erotic and disconcertingly bizarre.







profesAlthough we know little about his personal life, his sional was more accessibel as a parralled that a Charles Carrigton, the most important publisher of erotic literatur. They worked together between 1895 and 1918 in Paris and Brussels. --http://www.loriginedumonde.de/content/list_century.php?lang=en¢ury=20 [Feb 2005]

For 26 years Martin van Maële (who also used the pseudonym A. Van Troizem) worked, at least part time, as an illustrator of both erotic and non-erotic literature. The first book known to contain Maële's illustrations was possibly, La Légende des sëxes, published in 1883. However, it's more likely it was one of three books published in 1901.

Between 1901 and 1907 Martin van Maele illustrated work almost exclusively published by Charles Carrington, mainly erotic in nature. During that period Van Maele also illustrated works by H.G. Wells, and at least four Sherlock Holmes books published by Félix Juven.

When Carrington was expelled from France in 1907, Van Maele began illustrating work that was mainly published by Jules Chevrel. It's interesting to note that between 1909 and 1918, van Maele's work only appeared in 5 books; and of those books only one was published during World War 1 (1914-1918), La Religieuse in 1916. Was Martin van Maele a soldier in the war?

Beginning in 1919 until his death in 1926, Van Maele illustrated 11 more books, most of which were published by Jean Fort and Fort's publishing imprint "Collection des Orties Blanches".

Martin van Maële died in 1926 while working on the drawings for Les Dialogues --http://www.eroticabibliophile.com/illustrators_vanmaele.html [Feb 2005]



examples for sale:
http://www.artgasm.com/eroart/legende/index.html

Becat

These are hand tinted and appear as postcards. The joy and wanton abandon offered by the artist are an inspiration.

Jean Morisot

Artists give us ideas, dreams, inspirations, and fantasies:

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Bottger

Klaus Boettger (Boettger)
Born in Dresden in 1942, he lived in Berlin in 1950 and 51.
The family moved to Aachen in 1963, and by 1968 he was a student for at national Hochschulinstitut for art and Worker drawing, Mainz.

In 1969 he began a Study of philosophy, history of art and biology at the University of Mainz, had hia first state examination for the higher teaching profession there. He lived since then free lance in Wiesbaden.
In 1992 he died in Wiesbaden.
Klaus Boettgers work covers beside the designs and Gouachen over six hundred lithographies and erasures, which to the largest part in denWerkverzeichnissen I - IV are listed and shown.Numerous briefcase works and book illustrations supplement the artistic work.
From 1968 to 1992 far over 100 single exhibitions and still more exhibition participation in the whole world. His works are represented in many german and foreign works.



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Felicien Rops

These are some amazing pieces of work, things that warm the loins and heighten the senses... enjoy.

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Agostine Caracci

These are two VERY interesting pieces, and we hope to add more over time.

M. Parkes

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We have very little info on this artist but hope to accuire more of his works and a bio soon.

Ernst FUCHS, giochi,

These two examples are Ernst FUCHS.



This is the artist giochi:

PierreGandon
Pierre Gandon designed and engraved in 1947 the first French stamp dedicated to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Now 80, born January 20, 1899 in Hayles-Roses, Pierre Gandon is without a doubt one of best known among our creators of postage stamps, as much in France as in the rest of the world, where he has established an eminent position. Philatelists owe him more than a thousand examples, and some among them, like a certain Belgian collector, choose to collect only those stamps signed "Gandon."
Several times winner of the Philatelic Art prize and the Europa prize, including that for "the most beautiful stamp in the world," Pierre Gandon reserves, however, at the bottom of his heart, a privileged place for this stamp that he dedicated to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
In fact, enlisted in 1918, he was himself aviator observer in the squadron commanded by General Weiss, and some years later became friends with Saint-Exupéry, whom he had met at "Les Deux Magots," along with, every Monday, Picasso and Léon-Paul Fargue.
Testimony of the friendship returned by the aviator and artist to his departed friend, faithful evocation of a precise memory, it is perhaps more a Saint-Exupéry of the literary café, as he had rubbed shoulders with him at "Les Deux Magots," than the pilot, to whom Pierre Gandon had wanted to pay homage through the design of this stamp.

Pierre Gandon was an French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps. He was born January 20 1899 in L'Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne) and died July 23 1990. Youth His father Gustave Gandon was himself an engraver at the Institut de gravure of Paris and designed stamps for some countries

These are by an unknown artist....no signture exists on the pieces.
Deliberate annonimity? Accidental oversight? We may never know.....

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Suzanne Ballivet's life and origins remain something of a mystery. Other than the fact that she probably lived and worked in Paris from about 1930 to 1955, few, if any, biographical facts are available.

Although she illustrated several erotic books, Les Chansons de Bilitis (1943), Les Aventures du roi Pausole (1947), Gamiani (date unknown), La Venus aux Fourrures (1954), it is without doubt Initiation Amoureuse (1943) which remains her most popular body of work.




The artist's stature as an erotic illustrator of that period, however, is in no doubt. Owing something of a debt to the curved limbs and blonde, bucolic innocence of Renoir's Baigneuses, Ballivet's depiction of the nymph-like Therese and her older husband on their summer honeymoon is a triumph of the genre. The subject of this initiation, the newlywed Therese, is so much a pouting Bardot prototype that one is led to suspect that the real date of Initiation Amoureuse is more like 1958! But as with many clandestinely produced works, the publication date may have been falsified to confuse and mislead the authorities...
Ballivet is one of the few female artists known to have produced erotic work in the first half of this century. Leonor Fini, Gertrude Hermes, Clara Tice and Gerda Wegener constitute the rest of this elite company.

Avril

Finding grace, beauty, passion, fear, even trauma in art is not unusual. Opening up our senses and expanding our education and our horizons through art gives us more options, more choices, more power.

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