Lot 238
PAUL JACOULET
YAGOUROUH ET MIO
Auction: 15 June 2015 from 11:00 BST
Description
woodblock print, 105/350, signed and stamped
Dimensions
47.5cm high, 35.5cm wide (including margin)
Footnote
Note:
Paul Jacoulet (1902-1960) was born in Paris and raised in Tokyo
from an early age. His father Frederic Jacoulet was a university
professor hired by the Japanese government to teach French to
young aristocrats. Jacoulet was fluent in Japanese language and
social customs, and he studied a wide range of traditional arts.
Around 1931, he began to work with Shizuya Fujikake learning
the craft of woodblock printmaking. In 1933 he established the
Jacoulet Institute of Prints and by the next year, he began
publishing his own designs. With the exception of his ‘Rainbow
Series’ of 1934 all of his prints were self-published. Unlike
many other shin-hanga (new print) publishers, he gave credit to
his carvers and printers by including their names in the
margins of his prints.