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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!
Out of the closet, into the barn
26th May 2025
Today’s new artist, Neel Bate, was a pioneer of gay art. His 1948 The Barn, a graphic narrative depicting an encounter between a farmboy hitchhiker and a motorcyclist seeking shelter from the rain, affirmed and inspired many others. See Bate’s work now by clicking here.
Lesbiennes …
22nd May 2025
A small achievement today, but one we’re very happy about – we’ve just added our fiftieth Paul-Émile Bécat portfolio to the site! It’s his 1952 illustrations for an account of the (fictional?) eighteenth-century lesbian sect The Anandrines. See them all now by clicking here.
In the swing
20th May 2025
Fancy a bit of colourful sexy night life, a seedy bar in a back street, or a Mediterranean beach? Then today’s new artist, Karl Gietl, is your man. Click here for an eyeful of his colourful works (and by the way, he loves naked women with their legs apart).
