Lot Essay
Before intensive exploitation, Gabon's dense equatorial rain forest covered over two-thirds of its territory.
Forest track, Ayeme, Gabon Piste forestière, Ayémé, Gabon
Details
Paul-Emile Bécat (1888-1967)
Forest track, Ayeme, Gabon
Piste forestière, Ayémé, Gabon
signed, dated and inscribed P. Emile Bécat 1933, Gabon (Ayémé)
gouache on paper
52.5 x 32.5 cm
Forest track, Ayeme, Gabon
Piste forestière, Ayémé, Gabon
signed, dated and inscribed P. Emile Bécat 1933, Gabon (Ayémé)
gouache on paper
52.5 x 32.5 cm
Exhibited
Exhibited at the 1934 Salon, in the section of the Société Coloniale des Artistes Franais, no. 80. A gouache of the same subject and probably the one presented here, was exhibited at this Salon in 1942, no. 2205.