Dream worlds

24th September 2024

Today we bring you the work of Dutch artist Pat Andrea, with his magical realist artworks evoking themes of sexuality, fertility, fear and desire. Drawing on his dreams and fantasies, the you look the more you see. For a comprehensive collection of his paintings and drawings click here.

A rounded education

22nd September 2024

Courtesy of our good friend Jean-François, we have pleasure in adding Nicole Claveloux’s 2006 illustrations for L’ingénue lubrique (The Lustful Ingenue), an erotic fantasy set in an English girls’ boarding school. You can see them all now by clicking here. Enjoy!

Sapphic delights

19th September 2024

Pierre Louÿs’ classic lesbian fantasy about the Greek courtesan Bilitis has been illustrated many times, and today we bring you the stylish 1946 interpretation of Jean Berque, with a cast of naked lovers in a hot Mediterranean setting. See them all now by clicking here.

How grotesque

15th September 2024

Today’s new addition is the British artist Paul Rumsey, with his trademark dark charcoal drawings in the erotic grotesque tradition of Rowlandson, Goya and Rops. Witty and barbed, see them all now by clicking here (and look out for the Republican Arseholes at the end!),

Obviously Ovid

13th September 2024

We stay with Ovid’s famous Art of Loving with today’s new artist. the Italian Federico Righi, and his beautifully stylish prints to accompany this classic ‘sex manual’, written more than two thousand years ago. See the whole portfolio now by clicking here.

Ars Amatoria

11th September 2024

Ovid’s famous ‘advice manual’ The Art of Loving, or L’art d’amour, has been illustrated by many artists, and today we have the pleasure of bringing you the colourful portfolio by the wonderful Milivoj Uzelac. You can see them all by clicking here.

Vive le godemichet!

1st September 2024

The French word for dildo is godemichet, and today’s new portfolio is French illustrator Jean Reschofsky’s 1948 drawings for a volume of anonymous poems celebrating this important source of sexual pleasure. See them all now by clicking here.

Quelle horreur!

28th August 2024

Today we bring you the work of Angelo di Marco, aka Arcor, one of France’s best-known illustrators and cartoonists. As well as his complete Doctor Sex series and Eva: Birth of a Star, we have a great collection of his finely-imagined ‘horror’ illustrations – lots to enjoy now by clicking here.

Pretty Sauvage …

26th August 2024

Two new portfolios today from one of our favourite illustrators, Sylvain Sauvage – his 1922 plates for Imirce, Daughter of Nature, and his colourful 1929 series for Le Bon Plaisir. Both erotic in Sauvage’s original trademark style, see them now by clicking here.

Come up and see my etchings …

23rd August 2024

Today’s new artist is the Ukrainian Vasyl Fenchak, whose detailed and carefully composed prints draw on a wide range of classical and ancient stories, combining powerful symbolism with rich background textures. Subjects with an erotic dimension – Leda and the Swan, Ariadne, Calypso, The Judgement of Paris, Susanna and the Elders – are among his favourites. See Fenchak’s wonderful work now by clicking here.