Classic Druuna

23rd September 2023

A treat for all Paolo Serpieri Druuna fans today – more than a hundred new works culled from his previously unpublished material featuring his curvaceous Latin heroine and her friends. For some just too much, for others not enough! See them all now by clicking here.

Issues of consent

22nd September 2023

We recently added the Australian artist Norman Lindsay’s illustrations for The Cautious Amorist, and today complement them with his 1938 drawings for Age of Consent, about the complex relationship between a 40-year-old artist and his 17-year-old model. See them all now by clicking here.

Any time is the right time …

21st September 2023

Today we have pleasure in bringing you the earliest erotic portfolio yet to be added to the website, the sweet hand-coloured 1773 L’Année Galante. This month-by-month account of lovemaking reminds us that any season is the right time for hands-on intimacy – see all twelve images by clicking here.

Bodies

11th September 2023

The concept of ‘the erotic’ in art is sometimes hard to delineate; Richard Wallace’s paintings are almost never explicitly sexual, but what is nearly hidden can often be more sensually stimulating that that which is in full view. See his work now by clicking here.

French frolics

8th September 2023

With grateful thanks to one of our American contributors, we bring you all twenty of Claude Bornet’s very explicit 1803 engravings for Andrea Nerciat’s Devil in the Flesh – click here to see them. Yes, there was a great deal of sexual experimentation two centuries ago!

Hidden gay worlds

7th September 2023

It was lonely being a poor, self-taught gay artist in America in the 1970s and 80s, but Patrick Angus succeeded in portraying the real world of demimonde New York in the era of AIDS. See his sympathetic, often touchingly witty, work now by clicking here.

Van Mäele encore!

6th September 2023

As promised, more of the great Martin van Mäele for you, a suite of twelve original erotic watercolours from the mid-1920s. More than a century old, but so fresh and imaginative! See them all now by clicking here.

Sadie and her lustful friends

5th September 2023

‘Of all the books I have read about people on a desert isle, The Cautious Amorist is by far the most scandalous’ – a review of Australian Norman Lindsay’s 1932 novel, replete with his own lively illustrations. See what Sadie and her friends get up to by clicking here!

Holiday romances

4th September 2023

With the help of one of our lovely contributors we have been able to source a full set of Jean-Adrien Mercier’s 1929 plates for Un été à la campagne (A Summer in the Countryside), the letters of two teenage French girls discovering sex for the first time. See them all now by clicking here.

Bawdy or what?

3rd September 2023

More new Martin van Mäele today, his 1920 plates for Béranger’s Gaietés, the bawdy poems for which Béranger was well known in risqué Parisian circles. See them all now by clicking here. And even more wonderful van Mäele works coming very soon …