Paul-Émile Bécat

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Paul-Émile Bécat (born 2 February 1885 – died 1 January 1960 in Paris) was a French painter, printmaker and engraver, and was awarded first prize in the Prix de Rome in 1920. He was a student of Gabriel Ferrier and François Flameng and exhibitioned at the Salon de Paris in 1913. Returning from his travels to the Congo, Gabon, and the Sudan, he specialised from 1933 in the technique of drypoint in his erotic works. Today he is best known for his portraits of French writers, and for his erotic works.

Illustrative Work

Pierre Louÿs, Aphrodite: mœurs antiques
Pietro Aretino, Ragionamenti
Brantôme, Vie des dames galantes
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses
Paul Verlaine, Les amies
François-Mathieu Mathieu-François Pidansat de Mairobert, La secte des anandrynes

External links

Bibliography Illustrated books by Bécat
Illustrations by Bécat Spanish
"Seeing Africa" 2006 Tate Britain exhibition, supported by BP.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 56752531 LCCN: n85044564 ISNI: 0000 0001 0904 3902 GND: 119486474 SUDOC: 150188676

Persondata
Name	Becat, Paul-Emile
Alternative names
Short description	French painter
Date of birth	2 February 1885
Place of birth
Date of death	1 January 1960
Place of death

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