What’s new
A single-track imagination?
17th December 2021
There’s absolutely no doubt about what Polish artist Yarek Godfrey liked painting best! He only had one subject, from which he said ‘you die happy and completely lost’. Check his work out now by clicking here, and share his passion.
Climbing the erotic ladder
16th December 2021
Vienna-born Erich Albert Lamm produced an accomplished portfolio of erotic etchings in 1930 and moved to Sweden in 1934. Many thanks to one of our Swedish followers for great biographical information! See his Liebesstufenleiter (Love’s Stepladder) now by clicking here.
Celebrating male intimacy
15th December 2021
Duncan Grant, Bloomsbury Group artist and as openly gay as it was possible to be while homosexuality was illegal in Britain, is today’s new offering from honesterotica. See all the paintings and drawings from Private, the most complete collection yet published, here.
Power and poignancy
14th December 2021
Today we bring you the original and imaginative work of the great French Modernist artist Mario Prassinos, whose erotic work around the time of the Second World War combined power and poignancy. See him now by clicking here.
What a piece of work …
13th December 2021
Who here remembers the time of Timothy Leary, LSD, the Oz trial, and the musical Hair? If so, the work of today’s new artist, Raymond Bertrand, will take you straight back to 1970 to revel in his psychedelic fantasies. See his drawings and long hair now by clicking here.
Bones, muscles, skin, hair …
8th December 2021
Today’s offering is the Californian artist Phillip Dvorak, with his forensic exploration of nakedness. As one reviewer writes, ‘Dvorak's explorations are rooted in the erotic, subconscious and emotional possibilities of the human body’. See his work now by clicking here.
Polymorphous perversity
5th December 2021
Today we have for you in the German artist Johannes Spehr a provocative and fearless explorer of the dark recesses of how human beings interact with each other. Be prepared to be shocked and left wondering with his Bataille illustrations, which you can see here.
Client shaming
3rd December 2021
The witty and wonderful contemporary Russian artist Eugene Drabkin is today’s new offering for you all. See his shameless Poems about Sluts and daring Cheats and Cribs now by clicking here. If you don’t smile there must be something seriously wrong with you …
Keeping the freedom flag flying
29th November 2021
A really important new artist for you today, the original and imaginative Russian artist Valentin Yustitsky, who in 1937 was transported to the Gulag by the Soviets for his liberal ideas. But what joy and freedom in his drawings, which you can see now by clicking here.
Caroline Coon, the great offender
28th November 2021
It wasn’t until she was 73 that Caroline Coon was given her first solo exhibition – its title, ‘The Great Offender’, explaining why this iconoclastic artist is less well known than she deserves to be. Now we can share an inspiring selection of her work here.