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Tatiana at the Beach – Autochromes by Artist Ernest-Louis Lessieux
Ernest-Louis Lessieux – Tatiana in a bathing suit on a beach in Oléron, Autochrome glass plate, 1907. Ernest Louis Lessieux was born on 3 August 1848 in La Rochelle on the west coast of France. He was...
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Illustrations of Pierre Louys’ Les Chanson de Bilitis by George Barbier
Les Chanson de Bilitis illustrated by George Barbier – 1922 The Songs of Bilitis or Les Chanson de Bilitis is a collection of erotic lesbian poetry by Pierre Louys published in Paris in 1894. Louys...
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Fabulous Ski Resort Advertisements from the 1920s and 1930s
Winter Season in Oslo by Bert Huszár (1878–1935) – 1935 The word ski comes from the Old Norse word skíð which means “cleft wood”, “stick of wood” or “ski” and of course skiing is hardly a relatively...
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Beautiful British Travel Posters by Henry George Gawthorn
Knaresborough Henry George Gawthorn – c.1928 – Buy Prints Henry George Gawthorn was born in Northampton in July 1879. He trained at Regent Street Polytechnic initially training as an architect before...
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The Nudes of Hungarian Photographer Ergy Landau
Ergy Landau · Female nude, 1937. Born in Budapest in 1896 Ergy Landau started her brilliant photography career by completing an apprenticeship in her home town with Olga Máté, a Hungarian photographer...
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The Subtle Pictorialist Photographs of Clarence H. White
Portrait of two young women by Clarence H. White, c.1917 – Order Prints Clarence Hudson White, born in Ohio in 1871, was an American photographer known for his muted and toned down portraits of women...
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The Wonderful Posters and Artwork of Charles Gesmar (1900-1928)
Marion Forde poster by Charles Gesmar – 1926. Buy Prints. Charles Gesmar, born as Charles Gesimar in May 1900, had a particularly short albeit an incredibly successful artistic career. He died of...
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The Brilliant Tourist Posters of Poland by Stefan Norblin
Vilnius, Lithuania Travel Poster (Polish State Railways) by Stefan Norblin – 1928 The impressively named Juliusz Stefan Norblin de la Gourdaine, known for much of his life as the slightly more prosaic...
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The Glorious Posters of Switzerland by Emil Cardinaux (1877-1936)
Davos by Emil Cardinaux (1877-1936) – 1918 Emil Cardinaux, born in 1877, was a Swiss painter and poster artist. He became famous throughout the world for his poster art that illustrated his homeland...
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The Paintings of Late 19th Century Parisian Society by Jean-Louis Forain
“I belong to no school. I work on my own. I admire Degas and Forain.” – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Jean-Louis Forain, who in his lifetime would become a close friend of Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, and...
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“The Models” photographed by Albert Arthur Allen in 1925
Albert Arthur Allen was an American photographer known mainly for his nude portraits initially inspired by the naturist movement. He took a lot of photographs many of them portraying parts of the...
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Twelve Erotic Prints from Azuma Nishiki (Brocade of the East) by Katsushika...
“When I am eighty you will see real progress. At ninety I shall have cut my way deeply into the mystery of life itself. At one hundred, I shall be a marvellous artist” – Katsushika Hokusai Vincent...
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