LA CHENILLE VERTE "COREE:" THE GREEN CATERPILLAR, "KOREA."

Japan 1936, Jacoulet. A single deluxe large print, sheet size ca. 35 x 46.5 cm., print size ca.30 x 39 cm., woodblock printed by hand on hand-made paper, carved by Maeda, printed by Uchikawa, Fujii & Ogawa. FIRST LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION . *** . . FIRST & ONLY LIMITED, HAND NUMBERED EDTION OF 350 COPIES . . THIS BEING NUMBER 102 . . * There is a note in Miles, see below for the true total printed, which is 150, not the full 'intended' number of 350 copies. . Note the design function of the Korean pottery as a balance to the simplified forms, and the golden mica upper background. It should be noted, that prints with large areas of crushed mica are prone to peeling or chipping. In this case, the mica is very stable and solid. . Chenille Verte, [Green Caterpillar] with its heavily impressed gauffrage [embossing], uses negative space in a wa that influenced some of the Sosaku Hanga in their most abstract studies of the thirties and early forties. . Sealed with the good luck hammer in cinnabar, just below Jacoulet's pencil signature. The paper has a "PJ" watermark in the lower left corner and was published 24 November, 1936. The print is basically a very nice copy with some usual marginal toning and without any other flaws to mention. Framed and glazed. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** REFERENCE: . R. Miles: THE PRINTS OF PAUL JACOULET, illustrated as #40, the descriptive text is on p.97. Per Miles, he stated: "The edition of 150 fully printed," fewer than 75 impressions, the intended edition of 350 but fewer than 275 were actually printed. . The model in this print also appears in #119, a Korean wearing a horsehair hat and smoking a pipe, one of the archetypes of Jacoulet, who often used the same models dressed in various guises. . *** A copy recently sold at auction for $2300. *** .