Bulgarian, 1885-1930

Literature:

Abel Rambert, Jules Pascin catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre de Pascin (Paris: Editions Abel Rambert), Volume 4, pg. 157, no. 530

Jules Pascin, Bulgarian born and of Jewish descent, came to Paris as a young man living a Bohemian life style in the company of Modigliani, Soutine and the others of the group known as “Circle of Montparnasse”. Taking his thematic inspiration from Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec, without their sharpness of observation, he concentrated on female figure studies exhibiting a fine delicacy of line and colour.

He went on to the United States where he became an American citizen but, being a tragically disturbed man, he eventually committed suicide.