Erotic/Pornographic art/prints and illustrations [merged]

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Interest character, you see his work reproduced a lot, sometimes signed, sometimes not. He's of roughly the same period as Felicien Rops, who I posted above, and has somewhat similar subject matter. There's a lot of "satanist" and folkloric sexuality-- a very clever Leda and the Swan, and damsels ravished by satyrs. And some BDSM content as well, notably in illustrations for La Comtesse au fouet. Both he and Rops seem very much influenced by Gustave Dore (who does a small amount of erotica, which I'll get to in another post)

A bibliographical guide to Maele/Martin's output summarizes

Originally Posted by Martin Van Maele: An Illustrated Bibliographical Checklist

A French illustrator and engraver from c.1885 until his death in 1926, Maurice François Alfred Martin was born in Boulogne sur Seine, France on 12 Oct 1863. He was an obscure artist for many years but that quickly changed after he started illustrating erotic literature under the name he is best known, Martin Van Maele. More than a checklist but perhaps less than a full-on bibliography, this work is as complete as I have been able to make it after years of research. However, it IS a work in progress. Martin Van Maele's erotica illustrations were often unsigned or signed with a pseudonym, done in very limited editions, with the publishers of his work being just as elusive; making it all the more difficult to ever define this list as complete.

Huffington Post published an interesting illustrated essay about his work,
Dive Into The Fantasies Of An Obscure 19th Century Erotic Illustrator (NSFW)
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b06e52746ed7f4

[mods, I hope that link is OK here, delete if its not!}

A few of his works have been previously posted on this thread by denysios, here:
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...postcount=1206

A few more

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Mel Ramos was kinda the pinup Andy Warhol. Recently deceased, his canvases sell for astonishing amounts of money, $500K is not at all unusual. Its hard to know whether to call his work "erotic". His women were always beautiful, and mostly nude, but I'm not really sure what to think of them. They're not "dirty pictures" . . . I get the idea that "a day at the office" for Mel Ramos was fun.

He's the Beach Boys to Andy Warhol's Lou Reed. No angst, no sexual ambiguity, just hot girls, mostly beach blondes, with big tits and a Coke.

From his obit:

Pop artist Mel Ramos, whose art was known for its striking juxtaposition of naked women with larger-than-life commercial products, has died at age 83. According to his daughter and studio manager, Rochelle Leininger, the cause of death was heart failure.

While he never achieved the same level of fame as his fellow Pop art pioneers, Ramos was an important part of the first generation of American Pop artists. He was one of 12 artists, along with Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s 1963 Pop art show that showcased the burgeoning new movement, with Ramos’s paintings appropriating comic book imagery of female superheroes.

“That was the beginnings of Pop art,” Louis K. Meisel told artnet News. Meisel, who owns the eponymous Louis K. Meisel Gallery in New York, has been Ramos’s dealer since 1971. Ramos originally showed with Leo Castelli, but the gallery wasn’t interested when the artist started focusing on more overtly sexual female nudes, satirizing the traditional commercial pin-up girl.

“I guess that was pretty aggressive back in 1965,” said Meisel, who was introduced to Ramos’s work by Castelli’s former associate director, Ivan Karp. “He called me and said ‘I have a really great artist for you,’ but he didn’t tell me who. Mel Ramos showed up at the gallery in this big fur coat with this big afro haircut and he showed me his work. I took him in immediately and I’ve been representing him ever since.”

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Austrian artist -- doesn't have an international reputation, but to my eye very talented. He did a series of erotic watercolors that are violent and vigorous, people fucking and whipping with abandon. He traveled to the United States in 1937, and his work has a mixture of styles -- sometimes resemble the watercolors of other Austrian artists, but it looks like American artists made an impression on him too.

If you wanted to collect little known 20th century erotic art with some claim to quality, Schatz would be a good bet. Dealers and auction houses in Vienna have his work, but its not expensive (as art goes)



I apologize -- there are a few duplicates in there. Its hard to find any good reproductions of his work . . .

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Russian "neo-impressionist" painter. Technically OK, I guess I can get into the pretty girls, but mostly these paintings seem uninspired to me. His paintings have been posted on this thread a few times before, always mixed in with jumbles of other stuff; I thought I'd put a representative sample into one post, just 'cuz I've got the organizing impulse going on.

The paintings are very old fashioned-- pastel harem pinups, basically. He trained as a student of Ilyá Glazunov, a better painter from an earlier generation-- but I've never seen any cheesecake from Glazunov. Reminds me a bit of the French painter Domergue, but not as much life to the women . . .

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Italian comic illustrator, and especially cover artist-- responsible for many of the lurid fumetti sex and horror covers. Kelio had a great post several years ago of this terrific illustrator
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=179

Since that time, Biffignandi passed away, and there's been a big book about his work published: Sex And Horror - The Art of Alessandro Biffignandi, as the blurb says:

Between the late 1960s and the late 1980s, Italy went crazy for “sexy fumetti," a home-grown genre of adult comics with a unique brand of twisted humor, violence, and up-front sexuality. Wilder and weirder than you can imagine, they were some of the most outrageous and shocking comics ever produced, and their eye-catching, highly provocative covers could be seen on every news stand and kiosk in the country. One of the most talented and prolific of the cover artists at Edifumetto—the foremost Italian producer of adult comics during this period—was Alessandro Biffignandi, whose work featured horror, fantasy, and sci-fi elements alongside plenty of naked female flesh. This book is a collection of some of the sexiest examples of Biffigandi’s cover art for Edifumetto, which is highly coveted by collectors today.

Here are a few more of his images, apologies for any duplicates

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Dubigeon is fascinating guy. We've already got a number of posts from mac1 and others on this thread which demonstrate Dubigeon's remarkable facility with photorealistic pencil renderings of hardcore sex and BDSM



Dupigeon trained as an architect, and uses his real name for his work-- in an interview he says that he never was embarrassed about what he did, a nice sentiment. One art dealer's website says that he had a brief career as a race car driver. There's an in interview with him here, for those who can read French:



Now here's where it gets curious: Dubigeon was also one of the most successful designers of scarfs for Hermès-- the super expensive French boutique favored by the likes of Catherine Deneuve, Grace Kelly and rich men's mistresses everywhere.

A blog devoted to these scarves -- apparently much collected-- notes of Dubigeon

Originally Posted by Carre de Paris Hermes Scarf Blog

I had toyed with the idea of featuring one of my favorite Hermes artists, Loic Dubigeon, but hesitated after I discovered a quite different side to his art. The dichotomy between what Monsieur Dubigeon created for Hermes and as a freelance artist is quite astounding and I shall leave it at that.

Earlier posts with Dubigeon material
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...on#post3766934

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...on#post3737933

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...on#post3578898

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...on#post3313113

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This is a bit of a mystery. Kelio posted a bit of his work, almost ten years ago on this thread
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=129

You'll see Fameni [aka "Leporini", neither are his real name] with a birthdate of 1888, I have no idea where that comes from, but he's plainly working in the early to mid 20th century. One peculiarity of date, his women often are hairless-- that's a contemporary thing, last 20-30 years maybe, not common before.

His work has a variety of styles . . . about the only really consistent thing is that you see themes of psychological humiliation that remind me a bit of Joseph Farrel. Not the same artist, but occasionally working in the same vein-- group scenes.

I'd really like to know more about who this guy was, but searching various blogs and resources devoted to erotica, I come up with next to nothing. I can't even figure out how folks come up with a year of birth . . .

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Originally Posted by deepsepia

This is a bit of a mystery. Kelio posted a bit of his work, almost ten years ago on this thread
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...&postcount=129

You'll see Fameni [aka "Leporini", neither are his real name] with a birthdate of 1888, I have no idea where that comes from, but he's plainly working in the early to mid 20th century. One peculiarity of date, his women often are hairless-- that's a contemporary thing, last 20-30 years maybe, not common before.

His work has a variety of styles . . . about the only really consistent thing is that you see themes of psychological humiliation that remind me a bit of Joseph Farrel. Not the same artist, but occasionally working in the same vein-- group scenes.

I'd really like to know more about who this guy was, but searching various blogs and resources devoted to erotica, I come up with next to nothing. I can't even figure out how folks come up with a year of birth . . .

One thing to bear in mind is that books of erotic art were often printed with a a date 20 or 30 years in the past. I think the idea was that if the police got hold of a copy they wouldn't bother looking for those responsible.

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Originally Posted by skanjob

Can someone ID the illustrator or source? The style looks similar to others I have seen but this is the only image I can find at the moment.



thanks,

Another one for you. Found it today, pure coincidence

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Originally Posted by mysterybadger

Another one for you. Found it today, pure coincidence

As noted above, the artist is Marcus Gray. An image search with that name will find lots more. He's a working commercial 2D and 3D artist doing new media and games and has an active social media presence as "Marcus Gray Art". He's a bit of a pastiche artist, his style is a mix of Marquis magazine, Olivia de Berardinis and Sorayama, most often, but he's pretty versatile and can mimic a lot of different styles.



much more can be found on his FB page ("Marcus Gray Art") and his Deviant Art page ("Shed 2602" -- someone else had the name Marcus Gray there, apparently). A lot of the work is just Photoshop "painted" versions of photographs, though he does do original work. You can often recognize the models that he's using-- here's his Aria Giovanni, for example. . . really just a modified photograph