Paul-Emile Becat

All illustrations by Paul-Émile Bécat (1885-1960). The first 3 are from Le vie des dames galantes by Pierre de Brantôme (Paris, 1957), being auctioned on eBay here. The bottom 2 are from Le pied fourchu by René Boylesve (Paris, 1959), being auctioned on eBay here.

S. Sauvage

woodcut by S. Sauvage, 1924

Scanned from Bilder-Lexicon der Erotik, Vol. 3 (Vienna, 1930).

Karel Formánek

Up for auction on eBay is a supremely rare limited edition of nude prints. The seller explains: "Roughly titled 'The Cycle of Life' [Cyklus zivota], this is a lovely portfolio containing (10) wonderful original woodblock prints of art deco-inspired female nudes done by the artist Karel Forman, and issued in an edition of 200 examples by his friend Jiri Jicha in Brunn, Mo.ravia in the first years of the Second World War. A work which is precisely evocative of the time and place of its origin, --Central Europe in this period was awash with artists and book-binders ready to cooperate to produce small regionally-published singed and limited editions of considerable beauty. This is example 58 of 200 issued claimed issued, though especially during the war, runs of works like this were often left unfinished for lack of materials." (Although the seller gives the artist's surname as Forman, it appears to be Formánek on the cover.)

The auction is here.

Le Diable au Corps

From an 1803 edition of Le Diable au Corps [The Devil in the Flesh] by André Robert de Nerciat. Earlier Diable postings are here and here.

Albert Arthur Allen

Scan of an original silver print by Albert Arthur Allen, who photographed primarily nudes in San Francisco from 1915 to 1930. It's being auctioned on eBay here.

Perino del Vaga

Gioue in Satyro by Perino del Vaga (1501-1547).

Previous Perino is here.

Franz von Bayros

Originally published in Das schöne Mädchen von Pao (1910), a collection of seven drawings by Franz von Bayros. Another Bayros is here.

Gerhard Riebcke

A seller on eBay is offering an original print of this work from German photographer Gerhard Riebcke (1878-1957). The auction is here. More nudes from Riebcke are here.

Update on "Old Art Still Upsetting Americans"

The New York Times has picked up the story of the Texas teacher who lost her job because her students saw a nude statue at a museum. (I discussed this here last week.)

The jury is still out on just which statue was spied by the fifth-graders, but suspects include the classical Greek young man, The Shade by Rodin, Flora by Aristide Maillol, and Star in a Dream by Jean Arp.

(As always in cases where the media covers a person who has been fired, demoted, or otherwise punished for a stupid reason, the employer is claiming that the reason wasn't really the reason. There were other "performance concerns," despite the fact that the teacher in question got wonderful job evaluations right up until the museum field trip.)

Erich Godal

by Erich Godal (1899-1969)

Erich (sometimes Eric) Godal drew this title page for Aus den erinnerungen eines detektivs (From the Memories of a Detective). Scanned from Bilder-Lexicon der Erotik, Vol. 4 (Vienna, 1931).