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.
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