In the Time to Come

20th June 2025

Today’s new artist is American Mark Price, with his imaginative exploration of a brave new world of sex, gender and relationship fluidity, made possible through art in a way that isn’t quite so easy in real world interactions. See Mark’s work now by clicking here.

More Bécat …

17th June 2025

Yes, even more of the wonderful Paul-Émile Bécat! Today’s new portfolios – we’ve added his 1947 Les Baisers (Kisses) and the 1959 Lettres de la Marquise – Les Baisers are here and the Marchionesse’s love letters here. Fifty-four Bécat works down, around a dozen still to go! Enjoy …

The realm of Eros

15th June 2025

‘In the realm of the erotic, Klaus Böttger’s art is the most accomplished that I have ever seen,’ wrote Oliver Maitland in the foreword to Böttger’s 1999 portfolio Eros & Thanatos. We have all of these plus his earlier work, all of which you can see by clicking here. See what you think.

Brave new world

13th June 2025

Something a bit light and witty for you all today – Joseph Hémard’s risqué tongue-in-cheek illustrated Géographie, a primer for 20-60-year-olds about France and the wider world. Amazing that it was written in 1928, nearly a hundred years ago. See it now by clicking here.

Behold!

11th June 2025

Sinuous lines and subtle colours are the hallmark of the erotic etchings of today’s new artist, Byelarus-based Alexander Shappo. See his mesmerising Ecce Femina portfolio now by clicking here.

Vous avez dit bizarre

9th June 2025

Another contemporary French erotic-surrealist artist for you today, with the added attraction of recently moving into depictions of exhibitionism – this is Perpignan-based Alain Bonnand, whose innovative and thought-provoking work you will find by clicking here.

Bohemian rhapsody

5th June 2025

We’re always on the lookout for new portfolios by the great Paul-Émile Bécat, and today we bring you his etchings for Scènes de la vie de Bohème, the 1851 novel that launched the ‘bohemian’ lifestyle and inspired Puccini’s opera La Bohème. See them all by clicking here.

Czech him out …

3rd June 2025

Today’s new artist is the master Czech engraver Pavel Hlavatý, who integrates erotic themes into detailed settings to create bookplates and etchings on classical, historic and social themes, well worth taking your time to explore. See his work now by clicking here.

Surreal or too-real?

1st June 2025

Today’s new artist is the inventive, reclusive Belgian surrealist Armand Simon, whose drawings explore the world of the erotic through thought-provoking juxtapositions and sometimes rather-too-real fantasies. See Armand Simon’s work now by clicking here.

Naked attraction

28th May 2025

Today we have not one but two new portfolios illustrating René Boylesve’s La leçon d’amour dans un parc (Love Lesson in a Park), featuring an alluring male statue and lots of naked women. Umberto Brunelleschi’s 1933 version is here, and Antoine Calbet’s from 1942 here. Enjoy!