Paul Jouve

PAUL JOUVE (France, 1878-Paris, 1973).
"Tigers".
Etching on japanese paper. Artist's proof.
Moisture stains in the margins.
Signed and justified by hand.
With label of the Galerie Colette Weil on the back.
Without restorations, some stains on the paper.
Measurements: 40 x 50 cm.

This is a graphic work completely distinctive of Paul Jouve's style. It shows his characteristic African animals that made his painting so popular. From an early age, his father, seeing his passion for drawing, encouraged him and introduced him to the Jardin des Plantes, where he developed a passion for the big cats he drew. For the Universal Exhibition of 1900, the architect Binet commissioned a frieze of wild animals of more than 100 m representing tigers, bears, lions, bulls and mouflons. He will remain at Angkor for nearly three months, fascinated by the beauty and grandeur of the site. From this trip he will bring back hundreds of studies that will serve him, among other things, to illustrate Pierre Loti's "Le Pellerin d'Angkor". Jouve was first awarded the Prix Abd-el-Tif in 1907, and later the Prix d'Indochine in 1921.