Catalog ID: 3011
Artist: Paul Jacoulet
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: South Seas
Edition: "PJ" Elaborate Seal
Date: 1951
Publisher: The Artist - Privately Published
Reference No.: Miles #117
Size: 18 ¾ x 14 1/8
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
Artist: Paul Jacoulet
Medium: Original Japanese Woodblock Print
Series Title: South Seas
Edition: "PJ" Elaborate Seal
Date: 1951
Publisher: The Artist - Privately Published
Reference No.: Miles #117
Size: 18 ¾ x 14 1/8
Condition: Very fine
Notes:
RARE. By this time, Jacouelt's subscription list was shrinking, and thus he printed only as many impressions as his ready market suggested.
Jacoulet was experimenting with very intense new pigments when he produced this print from a painting done in the early thirties. Several new blues were added to his palette, and he became interested in expressing the transparency of the waters of the South Seas.
The South Seas Series were all created from sketches and paintings completed between 1929 and 1936. As late as 1959, these early works were being carved to produce new prints. Since many were lost in allied bombings during World War II, several of the designs are among the rarest and most desirable of all the artist's oeuvre.