Le Maitre Poitier, Coree

A seated man in a pale cream robe and dark woven cap, with a thin drooping mustache and beard, leans over a turquoise ceramic vase with a scrolling foliate pattern, holding a fine brush or tool to its surface in his right hand; a shallow yellow dish with a similar tool rests on the ground before him. The palette is muted — cream, slate gray-brown, and dusty rose in the background — against the vase's vivid blue-green, with a small orange butterfly at lower right beside the artist's signature. Titled "Le Maitre Poitier, Coree," this woodblock print by Paul Jacoulet, 1940, presents the figure in three-quarter view against a softly shaded, undefined backdrop.