Pas devant les enfants

26th March 2023

The poet Pierre Louÿs and the artist Louis Berthomme Saint-André are the perfect over-the-top partnership for the 1946 portfolio Poésies Érotiques. Every scene demonstrates the pair’s utterly outrageous erotic imagination. You can see them all now by clicking here. Enjoy!

The spices of (erotic) life

25th March 2023

A new helping of erotic humour today from the inventive illustrator André Collot, his 1955 portfolio Épices – Spices. Did you know that in French ‘confesses’ (confessions) can be divided into ‘con’ (cunt) and ‘fesses’ (buttocks)? See the whole shebang by clicking here.

Stirrings

23rd March 2023

And here’s the second complete high-resolution update – Frans de Geetere’s stark 1928 etchings for the story of two adolescent schoolgirls exploring their sexuality, Un été à la campagne. See them all now by clicking here.

The oldest profession

23rd March 2023

With many thanks to a Californian collector, we now have pleasure in updating a couple of important folios to complete high-resolution series – click here for the inimitable Rojan’s 1935 Examen de Flora. Can Flora become an exemplary prostitute?

French frolics

22nd March 2023

Subtly titillating rather than explicitly erotic, that’s today’s new portfolio from the French artist Gaston Barret. It’s his 1952 illustrations to Jean de La Fontaine’s ever-so-slightly-naughty seventeenth-century tales. See them all now by clicking here.

Consensuality …

21st March 2023

Today’s new artist, the Swiss nonogenarian Boris Vansier, raises many contemporary issues around consent and artist-model relationships with his Offrandes (Offerings). Made over a remarkable seventy years, you can see his thought-provoking work now by clicking here.

Our own little world

15th March 2023

The closed eyes and tight embraces of Nicoletta Tomás Caravía’s lovers demonstrate how sensual passion can sometimes be all-consuming. Today’s new artist, you can see Nicoletta’s lovers now by clicking here.

Nubility

11th March 2023

Pierre Louÿs’ Les chansons de Bilitis, a tale of young lesbian love in ancient Greece, is one of the most successful literary frauds of all time, and one of the most-illustrated of French erotic texts. Today we add Gaston Barret – lots of nubile pinkness which you can see by clicking here.

Dwellers all in time and space

10th March 2023

Today’s new artist, the Canadian Mat Brown, takes nothing less than all of time and space as his creative inspiration, producing breathtaking and vividly-coloured images full of thought-provoking detail. See his remarkable work now by clicking here.

Try this at home …

8th March 2023

Today’s new artist is the American Robert Baxter, and his 1976 drawings for Xaviera Hollander’s bestselling Supersex. At the time very daring, it encouraged many to experiment more with their love lives. See all his ‘exquisitely erotic’ illustrations by clicking here.