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REX (DATES UNKNOWN)
Rexland, Icons and Rex Men. Three unbound portfolios, two with 11 plates plus the cover, and Legends with 8 plates plus the cover. Each 280x217mm, 11x8 1/2 inches. Circa 1980s.
Rex is an American artist and illustrator closely associated with homosexual fetish and S&M subculture art of 1970s and 1980s New York and San Francisco. His graphic work for famous gay nightclubs like Mineshaft and The Saint, and sex shops such as The Pleasure Chest and The Trading Post, as well as his calendar, magazine, and poster illustrations led to his increasingly widespread popularity, influencing emerging artists including Robert Mapplethorpe. In 1976 he issued a bound portfolio entitled Männespielen. Following its success he issued 8 unbound portfolios of his drawings via mail order. While individual prints can still be found, the portfolios are now quite rare and scarcely found in their entirety.
