Hokkan-Zan, Coree

An elderly man with a thin beard sits in profile, wearing a pale cream robe and a black brimmed hat, smoking a long thin pipe held to his lips. He is seated among tall foliage with red, orange, and speckled leaves in the foreground, with a range of blue-grey mountains and a pale streaked sky behind him. The palette is muted — cream, sage green, dusty pink, and soft blue — giving the scene a quiet, contemplative mood; the artist's signature and seal appear in the lower right. Woodblock print, "Hokkan-Zan, Coree," Paul Jacoulet, 1939.