Zichy might have been pleased-he had often caused controversy with his work. This nicely produced volume caused a bit of a stir. They were then collated together and a selection published in a book entitled Liebe (aka Oh, Liebe) in 1911.
Most of these ink drawings lay undiscovered until after Zichy’s death in 1906. A mid-life crisis? A raging hard-on? The current fashion for erotic illustration? Or perhaps wealthy patrons looking for some “dirty pictures”? These pictures featured men and women having a right old time fucking and wanking, sucking and licking. Sometime in the mid-1870s, while living in Paris, the Hungarian artist Mihály Zichy produced a series of erotic illustrations.
