1920s Art
Illustrations for Gamiani by André Dignimont
Illustrations for Gamiani is a portfolio with 29 illustrations. Gamiani, ou une nuit d’excès (Gamiani, or A Night of Excess), written by Alfred de Musset, is one of the best-known and most-illustrated of French erotic novels.
Autour de l’amour by Eugène Reunier
Autour de l’amour (All About Love) is a collection of twenty-seven erotic drawings by ‘Eugène Reunier’ from 1925.
Bordell by Otto Schoff
Bordell was printed in 1924 in an edition of thirty copies with ten prints in each. Each print was hand colored with crayon. It shows scenes from a brothel, presumably in Berlin.
The Lantern by Ernst Gerhard
The Lantern: a portfolio of ten etchings. What once might have been hidden in the dark is revealed by the light source prominent in every plate.
Bilitis by Otto Schoff
Les chansons de Bilitis was purported to be ancient poetry found on the walls of a tomb in Cyprus, written by a woman named Bilitis who was a courtesan and contemporary of Sappho. However, it was a literary fraud perpetrated by the very prolific author of erotica, Pierre Louÿs in 1894.
Illustrations for “Les Chansons Erotiques” by P.-J. Beranger
Published privately in 1923, the poems of “Les Chansons Erotiques” by P.-J. de Beranger contain sixteen erotic etchings by an unknown artist.
Les Caprices du Sexe by Luc Lafnet
A portfolio of twelve engravings by Luc Lafnet (1899-1939) for the book Les Caprices du Sexe by Louise Dormienne.
The Amusements of Eros by Gerda Wegener
The Amusements of Eros: Twelve Erotic Sonnets by Alexandre de Vérineau with Illustrations by Gerda Wegener (1925)
Weimar Men Together
Weimar Men Together – A suite of ten watercolors from an anonymous artist of the 1920s in Weimar Germany