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Artist: Paul-Émile Bécat (French, 1885 – 1960)
Title: Marriage of Cupid & Psyche
Medium: Original drypoint etching on wove paper.
Year: 1955
Edition: Numbered limited edition. This is one of 670 numbered copies.
Publisher: Les Heures Claires, Paris
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 6 1/2 x 8 1/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 16 x 17 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.

Additional notes:
This is not a modern print. This impression is more than 65 years old. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp.
Extra Information:

Artist Biography:
 Paul-Émile Bécat 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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