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Paul Jacoulet

Biography

Paul Jacouletâs family moved from their native France to Japan when Paul was around four years old. An only child, he was brought up in Tokyo. He showed an early love for the calligraphic art of Japan and even as a child began to study the Japanese prints of Utamaro. Although behind Charles Bartlett and Elizabeth Keith in entering the world of ukiyo-e printmaking, his grounding in Japanese culture was far deeper than these British artists.

Paul Jacoulet showed exceptional artistic talent even as an adolescent but was a sickly youth, plagued by permanent health problems. Regarded as a beautiful young man, he took to wearing Japanese make-up and surrounded himself with dandies. His father had died in 1920 and his mother remarried after his fatherâs death, moving to Seoul in Korea. The 1923 earthquake formed a turning point in Paul Jacouletâs life and from this date he began a more adventurous, personal style in his art. After befriending a young boy from the island of Truk in 1929, Paul Jacoulet spent the next eight winters in the

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Paul Jacoulet - Woodblock Prints

Paul Jacoulet was an artist with a distinct blend of Japanese and French influences. He had confidence in his abilities and aimed to leave a lasting mark in the world of woodblock printing.

Biography: Paul Jacoulet

Paul Jacoulet was born in 1902 in Paris. He relocated to Tokyo during his youth when his father accepted a teaching position with the Japanese government. Immersed in both Japanese and French cultures, Paul mastered fluency in Japanese, French, and English.

Jacoulet developed a profound interest in the arts from an early age. In 1934, he ventured into producing his initial woodblock print. Unlike contemporary moku hanga or sosaku hanga artists, Jacoulet did not personally undertake carving or printing. Instead, he employed highly skilled craftsmen for these tasks, creating drawings and watercolors that were skillfully transformed into woodblock prints by expert carvers and printers. These artisans had undergone extensive vocational training, honing their expertise over many years.

His approach aligned seamlessly with the tradi

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Paul Jacoulet

French printmaker (1896–1960)

Paul Jacoulet (1896–1960) was a French, Japan-based woodblock print artist known for a style that mixed the traditional ukiyo-e style and techniques developed by the artist himself.

Biography

Jacoulet was born in Paris in 1896 and lived in Japan for most of his life. During World War II, he moved to Karuizawa, where he survived in the countryside by growing vegetables and raising poultry. During the occupation, at the request of General Douglas MacArthur, he was recruited by Commandant Charles McDowell to work at the Tokyo Army College. MacArthur would join Greta Garbo, Pope Pius XII and Queen Elizabeth II, as a prominent collector of Jacoulet's work.

Jacoulet prints are rare and often sell in the $5,000 to $20,000 range. The Parisian Lady, a print from 1934, sold for $25,000 at auction.^[1]

Jacoulet's creative period was from 1939 to 1960. He is considered one of the few western artists to have mastered the art of woodblock printing sufficiently to be recognized in Japan. His works are almost all of people