Paul Emile Becat

8 albums/85 artworks – Paul-Emile Becat (1885 – 1960) was a French painter, printmaker, and engraver who won first prize at the Prix de Rome in 1920. He trained under Gabriel Ferrier and François Flameng, and made his debut at the Salon de Paris as early as 1913. After travels to the Congo, Gabon, and Sudan in the 1920s, he shifted focus in the 1930s toward drypoint etching, a technique that allowed for fine, intimate detail and subtle shading. From 1933 onward, Becat became one of the most prolific illustrators of erotic literature in France, producing plates for nearly a hundred books over the following decades. His work often appeared in limited editions of classics by authors like Pierre Louÿs…

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