What’s new
No greater love hath any woman
25th November 2021
With great thanks to a specialist bookshop friend, we are at last able to offer you all the complete series from Mariette Lydis’s groundbreaking lesbian-themed portfolio Sappho from 1933. Tender, sensual, accomplished – see them now by clicking here.
Why should not young men be gay?
24th November 2021
Gay fantasies don’t come much gayer than those of Ed Cervone, ‘Ed of Manhattan’, who during the 1980s and 90s produced dozens of drawings and paintings featuring young men with six-pack chests, tight buttocks, and mightily swelling cocks. See them now by clicking here.
Doomed lovers
23rd November 2021
Possibly the most stylish illustrations ever to accompany Baudelaire’s famous Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), Émile Bracquemond’s powerful 1946 woodcuts for the lesbian-themed poem Femmes Damnées (Accursed Women) are now on our website here. Enjoy.
Memoirs of a woman of pleasure
22nd November 2021
Possibly the best-known work of erotic fiction, John Cleland’s Fanny Hill, was first published in London in 1748. Today’s new artist, Sophie Busson, was commissioned to create a new set of illustrations for a 1980 French edition; you can see them now by clicking here.
Smitten by song
21st November 2021
A new portfolio today from one of your favourite illustrators, Berthomme Saint-André – his 1933 prints for the erotic memoires of a German opera singer, based on the legendary Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient who seduced Beethoven and Wagner. See it now by clicking here.
What gender are you?
18th November 2021
Today’s new artist, Brooklyn-based Geoffrey Chadsey, is one of the few to engage fully with the vagaries and varieties of sexual identity. His multiple figures often shift between genders and even species. See his exciting work now by clicking here.
The graphic and versatile Dignimont
17th November 2021
A really important new artist for you all today, the talented Parisian illustrator André Dignimont, with no fewer than seven of his portfolios from the mid-1920s to the late 40s. Enjoy Maison Philibert, Gamiani, Verlaine and much more to be found here.
Dreams or nightmares?
16th November 2021
The prolific and thought-provoking Canadian artist Claude Bolduc is today’s new artist, with his disturbing paintings and drawings in which strange beings interact in a sensual and vivid dreamlike reverie. Not to everyone’s taste – see his work here and make your up own mind.
Sharing Paradise
15th November 2021
If you’ve wondered what the Garden of Eden was really like, wonder no longer. Today’s imaginative new portfolio from 1910 proves Eve and Adam were having a great time experimenting with each other and the rest of creation – including the dinosaurs! Share their exploration by clicking here.
