George Topfer 1920s French Spanking Drawings

Three erotic artworks by the French artist Georges Topfer, known primarily for his illustrations for flagellation novels published in Paris, late 1910s through to the early 1930s. Topfer's work appeared in over sixty bondage/flagellation novels including Petite Dactylo, Pension Whip, Sous Le Fouet, Miriam, Miss Cravache and Les Esclaves Moderne. His publishers included Orties Blanches, Librairie Franc-Anglaise and Librairie Artistique et Edition Parisienne reunies. Original graphite (pencil) drawings created in Topfer's very fine and detailed style with highlights in ink and white gouache; signed lower right corner. From deep in the archives.

Purchase from a client, however I believe these were once the property of the late Richard Merkin, celebrated artist, teacher, Manhattan dandy, indefatigable collector and author of the influential photo book, Velvet Eden. Original artworks by Topfer are rarely seen! 

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Eric Stanton's SWEETER GWEN John Willie Homage 1960s

The Adventures of Sweeter Gwen published as two digest sized magazines in the 1960s is Eric Stanton's homage to John Willie's classic bondage story Sweet Gwendoline. Note that one of the characters in the story is named Gaga: "Oh no! Your making me spill my daisies!! STOP, STOP!! Gag her...GAGA!" YU-69 femme is modeled after Bettie Page.

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OSTRA Derrieres Lingerie Fetish Paris 1920s~'30s

"C" is for chatte! The Ostra Studio in Paris was the culmination of immigrant brothers from Hungary joining forces to create the largest body of work devoted to "fetish tableaux" in the '20s and '30s. Their particular interest in derrieres, fetish clothing, bondage and s/m fantasies has left a significant and in many ways, unsurpassed legacy, whose influence can be seen today in the worlds of photography and fashion. Store listing include postcard and medium format photographs as well as stereographic images. Click here for all the Ostra Studio items in my eBay store. Click image to see listing details for each photograph.

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Vasta @ LA ART BOOK FAIR '16 Mags Paperbacks 'zines

Upcoming next month, Printed Matter's Los Angeles Art Book Fair at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA located in Little Tokyo. The fourth annual, not to be missed art and artist's book event, takes place February 12,13 and 14th, details here. 

The Vasta stand continues its presence in one of the main exhibition spaces, featuring silk screened limited edition artist's books, vintage o/p books, periodicals and ephemera, 1960s to the present in our areas of specialty: the body, the nude and the erotic. Along side the latest limited edition artist's books will be vintage sexpapers and smut including magazines, paperbacks, pulps and euro-'zines. 

Aloha Holland 1970s

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Spliff France 1980s

Le Petit Mickey France 1975 and Les Comix de Mainmise
Canadian R.Crumb pirate 1970s



Paris Strip-Teaser Paris 1960s

Satanik French "photo novel" 1967

French post-WWII pulp novels ca.1954

Burlesque A to Z 1963

Naked and Mod Lovers ca.1968

Sadism & Masochism ca. 1965

 

Bizarre Captured Satellite I & II ca.1964

Teenage Discipline and Captive Wolf late '50s

... gonna keep practicing 'till I get it right

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Dial "S" For Spanking 1960s Digest Magazines

From deep in the archives a selection of Satellite publications featuring lesbian, fem/dom, spanking and bondage photographs, produced in the early mid-1960s in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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