Shin Hanga prints
| Design: | Paul Jacoulet (1896-1960) | |||||
| Title: | La chenille verte. Corée. | |||||
| Size: | 39.2 x 29.9 cm (dai ōban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Theo Janssen |
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Special effects: fine gold mica background.
Published on 24 November 1936.
Very faint impression of elaborate red PJ seal on verso of the print:
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Watermark with ‘PJ’ in romaji and ‘若礼’ (i.e., Jakurei) in kanji in left margin.
Paul Jacoulet signature in black pencil and red Good Luck Hammer seal in bottom left of the print.
Names of carver and printer in right margin:
| Character | Translation | Character | Translation |
| 前 | 内 | ||
| 田 | Maeda | 川 | Uchikawa |
| 謙 | 又 | ||
| 太 | 四 | ||
| 郎 | Kentarō | 郎 | Matashirō |
| 刀 | Carver | 摺 | Printer |
Print title in bottom margin: LA CHENILLE VERTE COREE .
On this print Richard Miles (1982) comments: ‘The model in this print also appears in Retour d’un Banquet, wearing his horsehair hat and smoking his pipe, one of the archetypes of Jacoulet, who often used the same models dressed in various guises. Note the design function of the Korean pottery as a balance to the simplified forms, and the golden mica upper background. Chenille verte, with its heavily impressed gauffrage (i.e., embossing), uses negative space in a way that influenced some of the Sosaku Hanga in their most abstract studies of the thirties and earlier forties of the previous century.’
References
- Miles, Richard (1982). The prints of Paul Jacoulet. Pasadena: Pacific Asia Museum.
- Polak, Christian, et Sawatari, Kiyoko (2013). Un artiste voyageur en Micronésie. L’univers flottant de Paul Jacoulet. Musée du quai Branly, Paris: Somogy éditions d’art.
- The rainbow artist Paul Jacoulet (2003). Yokohama: The Yokohama Museum of Art.
- Wells, Florence G. (1957). Paul Jacoulet, Wood-Block Artist. Tokyo: Foreign Affairs Association of Japan.
Provenance: Castle Fine Arts