Paul Jacoulet
Paul Jacoulet 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] Paul Jacoulet's (1902–1960) creative period was 1939-1960. Jacoulet 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, either portraits or full body images capturing some background d...