Cupid Whispers to Psyche Original 1955 Paul-Emile Becat Limited Etching

Cupid Whispers to Psyche Original 1955 Paul-Emile Becat Limited Etching

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Size: without frame 16.5 cm H  x 21 cm W

Size: with frame 40.5 cm H x 43 cm W

1. Cupid Whispering to Psyche. Original drypoint etching on wove paper.
2. Year: 1955. Limited edition of 670.
3. Publisher Les Heures Claires, Paris.

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 Francois 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 his erotic works. Today he is best known for his portraits of French writers, and his erotic works.