Paul Jacoulet
Le Sculpteur de Tokobuei. Mere du Sud. The Tokobuei Sculptor. South
Seas.
| PUBLISHED: | May 1954 |
| SEAL: | Peony |
| CARVER: | Maeda |
| PRINTER: | Onodera, First Printing Onodera, Honda, Second Printing |
| EDITION: | 350--fewer than 50 impressions |
| COMMENT: | Jacoulet used several new pigments in this work, including a cranberry vegetable dye that reminded him of Angur in the South Seas. The incredible blue of the water is so different from the blue of the sea off the lighthouse at Shimoda (No. 134) that we might almost be in another world. The pink clouds in the blazing yellow sky mirror the intensity in the young carver's face. Jacoulet seems to invite us to contrast the rather crude tourist art with the delicate intensity of a creator who is unaware of any irony. |
Paul Jacoulet
From The Prints of Paul Jacoulet, A complete illustrated catalog by Richard Miles. London: Robert G. Sawers Publishing, 1982. Pages 79, 80, 133.
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