What’s new
Where to put Cupid’s arrow
16th March 2021
Powerfully spiritual or scarily Aryan? Today’s new artist is the German Carl Schwalbach, with his larger-than-life Amazons. See his work here and ponder …
Sex as it really is …
15th March 2021
American artist Jim Herbert says ‘For me making erotic art is a sensual, playful experience – but with the possibility of a wreck on every turn.’ Which is maybe a really helpful way of thinking about sex in general! See his work here.
Edith Thiercelin’s powerful erotic imagery
13th March 2021
The Parisian artist Edith Thiercelin came late to erotic art, but when she did she used all her artistic training and her vivid imagination to burst on the scene with her powerful no-holds-barred sexually-charged images. See them now by clicking here!
Sex sells (but is it worth it?)
12th March 2021
Brilliant $12 million avant garde artist or opportunist kitsch charlatan? That's today’s new artist, American John Currin, whose explicit sex paintings you can see here. Look, read, let us know what you think ... looking forward to that.
A little French frisson
11th March 2021
A lot of good intimacy is as much about frisson (a wonderful French word) as it is about full-on sex. Today’s new artist, the Hungarian artist Miklós Vadász, knew the feeling well, and illustrated it in a 1920 portfolio of prints. Now you can see it here. Enjoy the frisson!
Mature musings on la vie erotique
10th March 2021
Who says you don’t think about sex so much when you’re older? Now approaching 90, Lisa Zirner still does! Her remarkable, colourful and mature illustrations for Batailles and Sade are now on the website for you all to be inspired by – see them here. Enjoy!
How to see through clothes
9th March 2021
Have you ever wondered how to draw people clothed and naked at the same time? Let Sylvain Vigny show you how in today’s new portfolio, his 1937 drawings for Georges Faillet’s La danse macabre. Mortality, sex, death – those universal themes, see the whole portfolio here.
A thought-provoking surrealist
8th March 2021
Today’s new artist, Roland Topor, was a truly original genius, using his surrealist imagination to expose the absurdities of social convention. We have just added his 1973 commentary on pornographic imagery, l’Epikon, which you can see here. More Topor soon …
Vertès and Louÿs, a perfect pairing
7th March 2021
Today’s new portfolio is literally unique – the only hand-coloured set of Vertès illustrations for the 1938 edition of Pierre Louÿs’ erotic poetry, which itself was printed in an edition of only 135 copies. A true and precious gem, click here and enjoy its rich delights.
Pondering sex, obsession and death
5th March 2021
Today’s new artist is, despite his name, an important German artist – Eddy Smith. A brilliant engraver, he made this thought-provoking erotic portfolio in 1921, full of detail and symbolism; see it here, look carefully, and wonder what was in his mind.