Martin, Charles

(2/28/1884 Montpellier-11/20/1934 Paris) (France)

   Illustrator, advertising draftsman, costume designer, watercolorist, and etcher. Studied in his home town, then at Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris under F. Cormon. He became an influential Art Deco artist. Produced numerous erotic illustrations.

   Reproductions: [Interracial tropical sex scene]; from Love and Gastronome; 1925; engraving; Dopp, 2004: p. 171 . [Man fondles semi-nude woman]; 1925; etching; Klinger, 1985c: fig. 231 . [Man fondles woman]; 1920; etching; Klinger, 1984d: fig. 2249 [B]. [Masturbating woman in a garden]; 1925; etching; Klinger, 1985c: fig. 238 [B]. [Monk fondles woman]; 1925; etching; Klinger, 1985c: fig. 233 [B]. [Portfolio]; 1925; etchings; Klinger, 1985c: figs. 243260 [B]. [Two large clothed men and a nude woman]; 1925; etching; Klinger, 1985c: fig. 240 [B]. [Woman exposes herself to a man]; 1925; etching; Klinger, 1985c: fig. 236 [B]. [Woman exposes herself to ward off a devil]; 1925; etching; Klinger, 1985c: fig. 234 [B]. Young prostitute; Brusendorff, 1960b: p. 129 [B].

   [b]Source: Benezit, vol. 9: p. 357; Vollmer III 1956: p. 333; Vollmer VI 1962: p. 251.