1920s

Autour de l’amour (All About Love)  is a collection of twenty-seven erotic drawings by ‘Eugène Reunier’ from 1925.

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: a portfolio of ten etchings. What once might have been hidden in the dark is revealed by the light source prominent in every plate.

Two Flappers in Paris – A man meets a young lady on the cross-Channel voyage and learns that she is going to school in Paris. The next day in Paris, the man, posing as ‘Uncle Jack,’ is allowed to take the young lady and her friend for an afternoon’s diversion at a Maison Close where a great amount of education is imparted.

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

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

The Amusements of Eros: Twelve Erotic Sonnets by Alexandre de Vérineau with Illustrations by Gerda Wegener (1925)

Weimar Men Together – A suite of ten watercolors from an anonymous artist of the 1920s in Weimar Germany

Parisian Frolics – the story of a French gentleman who spends his afternoons sampling the delights of Parisian houses of pleasure.