Le Nid, "Coree"

 

Paul Jacoulet

  1896 - 1960 (biography)

1941  

color woodcut with silver mica 

15 1/2 x 11 13/16" image 

pencil signed within image, mid-upper right 

Miles lists about 200 impressions; this being from the second printing, printed by Onodera 

printed title in lower right margin; chops of the Maeda, carver, and Onodera, printer, in lower right margin; Sparrow seal beneath the signature 

Miles 80, illustrated page 62 

ivory Japanese wove with Jacoulet's PJ watermark 

published 

artist 

ROSA104 

$2,000.00 

According to Richard Miles, this print, a gift intended for the artist's mother on her birthday, was being distributed at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Jacoulet's mother died before she could see the work, and Jacoulet never reprinted it in its full size despite its immediate success. The model is reputed to be the man who trained young Jacoulet in calligraphy.

The English tranlation for this print is "The Nest, Korea". Jacoulet would also produce a set miniature versions of this print, known as "surimono", to send as Christmas cards.