Is an erotic lie justified if it’s beautiful?

25th May 2021

‘Painting is the most beautiful of lies’ wrote the Fauve artist Kees van Dongen – see what he meant with his Casanova and Arabian Nights portfolios, new to the website today. They’re here. Enjoy …

Graphic graphics for graphic texts

22nd May 2021

Something a bit different today – using graphic elements and typography to add to his compositions, Johannes Vennekamp comments on cultural, social and political issues in a way both artistic and thought-provoking. See his Genet and Sade portfolios here.

The ultimate 1950s gay fantasy

21st May 2021

Today’s enchanting handmade portfolio from Germany in the mid-1950s represents almost every gay man of the period’s fantasies, one-on-ones, orgies, multicoloured, you name it and it’s here. See the whole Männerliebe portfolio here, and enjoy its period innocence.

Art Nouveau erotic dreams

20th May 2021

We have two brilliant portfolios on the website from today’s new artist, from the Hungarian Attila Sassy. Have you ever wanted to try opium, or be a powerfully-muscled satyr? Let your imagination fly with these wonderful images! See them all here.

Outrageous, or what?

18th May 2021

If a 1930s artist had made a list of all the most outrageous, guaranteed offensive, tut-provoking sexual scenarios imaginable, and then committed them to paper, then an anonymous portfolio like Interdit (Forbidden) would have been the result. See it here; what do you think?

Childish, dirty, or brilliant?

17th May 2021

Enfant terrible, agent provocateur? That’s today’s new artist, Jean Dubuffet, with his deliberately challenging 1950 Art Brut drawings for the strangely-title La bonfam abeber. What do you make of them? See them all here.

A brilliant new Rojan portfolio

14th May 2021

A really important new portfolio today from one of the most-visited artists on the honesterotica website, the incomparable Rojan. It’s his hilariously erotic 1935 illustrations to Apuleius’s second-century classic The Golden Ass. See them all now here!

Sex isn’t always fun …

13th May 2021

If you thought you knew all about Székely, think again – today’s new artist is the other Székely, André, who was actually a better artist than Alex. His 1934 Love without Joy etchings are both exquisite and poignant: see them here.

Hooray, it’s Sin-day!

12th May 2021

If you like 1940s futuristic art, with plenty of bulging dynamic muscles and glistening buttocks, you’ll appreciate today’s new artist even though we don’t know who is behind the ‘Pinceau’ (Paintbrush) pseudonym. See Il Terzo Peccato (The Third Sin) now by clicking here.

You want some fantasy … ?

11th May 2021

Today’s new illustrator is the highly original Geneva-based artist Alain Babel, with his distinctive detailed pencil drawings featuring a lot of nudity but also cats, woodstoves, toilets and diving helmets. They’re worth spending some time with, and can all be seen here.