Erotic Art

Les Quat’ Jeudis  (The Four Thursdays) by Bernard Montorgueil is a classic of Female Dominance and male submission. It dates from 1930. It has eleven illustrations.

Illustrations for Fanny Hill by Paul-Émile Bécat – In 1942, Bécat was commissioned to produce illustrations for a new edition of the classic. It contained ten of Bécat’s drypoint etchings.

Illustrations for Fanny Hill – In 1908, Paul Avril was commissioned to illustrate a new French edition of the classic Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland.

Published privately in 1923, the poems of “Les Chansons Erotiques” by P.-J. de Beranger contain sixteen erotic etchings by an unknown artist.

Joie d’Hiver by Paul Avril – A set of ten illustrations by French artist Paul Avril from approximately 1900, concerning some of the Joys of Winter.

The Allies of 1945 – A wry and ribald suite of eight French postcards celebrating the end of World War II. Soldiers from several nations are shown the appreciation of the French populace.

A portfolio of twelve engravings by Luc Lafnet (1899-1939) for the book Les Caprices du Sexe by Louise Dormienne.

Mémoires d’une Chanteuse – a suite of fourteen illustrations from a French edition of 1947 of the sexual autobiography of famed German soprano Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient.

The Book of Lust was written by Pierre Lacombiére circa 1930. The twelve illustrations shown here are by an unknown contemporaneous artist, assumed to be Grimaudin.