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Paul-Émile Bécat (2 February 1885 – 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
• Voltaire, Le Taureau Blanc, La princesse de Babylone (1951)[1]

External links

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

На других языках

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[de] Paul-Émile Bécat

Paul-Émile Bécat (* 2. Februar 1885 in Paris; † 1. Januar 1960 ebenda) war ein französischer Maler, Zeichner und Radierer. Er ist heute weniger für seine Ölgemälde, sondern vor allem als Illustrator erotischer Werke namhafter Lyriker und Romanciers bekannt.

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- [en] Paul-Émile Bécat

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[fr] Paul-Émile Bécat

Paul-Émile Bécat (né le 2 février 1885 et mort le 20 janvier 1960 (à 74 ans) à Paris) est peintre, graveur et dessinateur français et titulaire d'un premier second grand prix de Rome en 1920. Il est mieux connu aujourd'hui comme illustrateur de livres érotiques.

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[it] Paul-Emile Bécat

Paul-Emile Bécat (Parigi, 2 febbraio 1885 – Parigi, 1º gennaio 1960) è stato un pittore, incisore e disegnatore francese.

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