Artist: Paul-Émile Bécat (French, 1885 – 1960)
Title: Fifteenth Kiss, The Shadows I (Quinzieme Baiser, Les Ombres I)
Medium: Original lithograph on velin paper.
Edition: Numbered limited edition. This is one of 195 numbered copies.
Dimensions: Image Size 5 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 14 x 16 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
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.