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L'Attente by Paul Jacoulet — Japanese Woodblock print, 1947

L'Attente

by Paul Jacoulet

Shin-hanga
FiguresPortraits
Date:
1947
Medium:
Woodblock print
Format:
Oban
Source:
japancoll

Description

"L'Attente" (Waiting) from 1947 depicts a figure from Celebes (Sulawesi) in Indonesia — a person caught in the universal human experience of waiting, the body arranged in a posture of patient suspension. Jacoulet titled this Indonesian portrait "Waiting" to transcend the ethnographic and reach toward the psychological, the named emotion transforming a portrait of cultural encounter into a meditation on a condition all humans share. The 1947 date places this immediately after the Pacific War's conclusion.

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Frequently Asked Questions

L'Attente was created by Paul Jacoulet (ポール・ジャクレー) in 1947.

L'Attente depicts figures and portraits.