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Mon Ami Francesco Ogarto, Marianes, Saipan / My Friend Francisco Ogarto, Marianas, Saipan.
1935. Signed in black ink lower left above the Fan seal. Seals of the carver, Yamagishi, and printer, Urushibara, lower left margin. Published: 26 March 1935. - First edition, fewer than 150 impressions. - Miles 17. - CHF 2’600 / Sale CHF 1'800 |
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 Dames Chinoises et Mandchoues / Chinese Women: The Bat Series - Also called: The Manchurian Princesses.
1942. Complete set of 5 prints. Copy no. 20 of 150 (fully printed). 1) Le Bocal de poissons rouges / The Bowl of Red Fish. 2) Avant l'Audience / Before the Audience. 3) La Favorite / The Favorite. 4) La Confidente / The Confidant. 5) Dans la Loge officielle / In the Official Box. - Seal: Bat. - Carver Maeda. - Printer: Fujii. - All in excellent condition in the original folder and numbered: 20/150. - Miles 81-85 and page 63-65. Except for this series of five prints begun in the summer of 1941 and completed in the spring of 1942, no prints were made during the Second World War due to paper shortages and other diffculties. Jacoulet spent months in research to insure the materials and patterns were authentic. The complexity of colours required multiple blocks for each print. - Jacoulet wrote the following to a potential customer: "...for each color, it requires a special block... The colors are applied by the printer with his finger...on each sheet...and each time...that is the most curious part, for each print is a separate effort... not one is identical to another... From this point of view, this series is unique in the history of the woodblock print... as much for the richness of the materials used as for the numbers of blocks for each color... La Confidente took 223 blocks (impressions)... the lemon yellow clothing was rubbed by hand at least six times...and it is the yellow made by crushing flower petals dried and ground...the hairdos of the women are printed in black lacquer... I have used yellow gold, red, green, white and silver gold, burnt leather, violet, and green-emerald, powdered pearl, mica and old powdered silver... the green screen (fan) held in front of the woman in Le Bocal de poissons rouges is entirely hand engraved minutely to give the effect of true Chinese gauze...". - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jacoulet. - VERKAUFT / SOLD / VENDU |
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L'homme accroupi. Chinois. 1947.
Signed in pencil lower right above Owl seal. Numbered on the reverse in red stamp: No. 116/350. Seals of the carver, Kentaro Maeda, and printer Onodera, lower right margin. Published: 20 November 1947. - Editions: 250 - fewer than 120 impressions. 350 - fewer than 150 impressions. - Miles 88. - CHF 1'600 / Sale CHF 1'300 |
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Le jeune chef Saragan et son esclave Forum. Tomil, Yap. / The Young Chief, Saragan, and his Slave, Forum. 1949.
Signed in pencil lower right above the Peach seal. Numbered on the reverse in red stamp: 195/350. Seals of the carver, Kentaro Maeda, and printer, Yoshizo Onotera, lower right margin. Published: 10 March 1949. - Edition: 350, fewer than 200 impressions. - Miles 104. - CHF 3’800 / Sale CHF 2'600 |
Catalogue raisonné / Werkverzeichnis
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MILES, Richard. The Prints of Paul Jacoulet. A complete illustrated catalog. London, Sawers in Association with the Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, 1982. 29,7 : 21 cm. 140 S. mit zahlr. teils farb. Abb. Farbig illustr. OKart.
Anlässlich der Ausstellung 'Prints of Paul Jacoulet - The Complete Works 1934-1960' im Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena CA, erschienen. |
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