Le Marie. Seoul. Coree

 

Paul Jacoulet

  1896 - 1960 (biography)

1950  

color woodcut with silver-leaf and metallics 

15 1/2 x 11 13/16" image 

pencil signed within image in lower right image 

Miles lists 270 impressions 

printed title in lower right margin; chop of the carver, Maeda, in lower right margn; owl seal beneath signature, lower right image 

Miles 110, illustrated page 72 

ivory wove 

published 

artist 

ROSA101 

SOLD

According to Richard Miles, this portrait of a young Korean bridegroom continues Jacoulet's pre-war conception of the "floating figure", a kneeling or cross-legged person filling most of the block, but surrounded by space. His original drawing was so composed, but during this affluent period he began to fill the space not with colored micas, but with magnificent props like the Korean screen.