Shin Hanga prints
| Design: | Paul Jacoulet (1896-1960) | |||||
| Title: | Fumées de santal. Mandchoukuo. | |||||
| Size: | 29.9 x 39.2 cm (dai ōban) | |||||
| Original woodblock print | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Special effects: silver mica background, karazuri (which is Japanese for the technique of embossing or blind printing in English, and for gauffrage in French) on gown, and silver metallics on hair ornaments and gown.
Published on 25 December 1948.
Impression number 159 out of 350 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 mitsu-tomoe seal in bottom right of the print. ‘Fumées de Santal’ is the only print where Paul Jacoulet used the mitsu-yomoe seal, whose black version, moreover, is apparently used as the favicon of the Hanga Online website.
Names of carver and printer in left margin:
| Character | Translation | Character | Translation |
| 前 | 本 | ||
| 田 | Maeda | 多 | Honda |
| 謙 | 鉄 | ||
| 太 | 之 | ||
| 郎 | Kentarō | 助 | Tetsunosuke |
| 刀 | Carver | 摺 | Printer |
Print title in left bottom margin: Fumées de Santal Mandchoukuo
On this print Richard Miles (1982) comments: ‘This is one of Jacoulet’s most successful yoko-e or horizontal compositions. The traditional gauffrage on the brilliantly composed gown is one of his best effects in combination with the pale grey and blue tile that seems as soft as a pillow. The grey smoke of the burning sandalwood undulates from the Ch’ing dynasty incense burner.’
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