Each Jules Pascin oil painting is hand-painted with oil on linen canvas, created by one of HandmadePiece's professional painters. Museum quality with preview before shipment. Global free shipping.
1885 - 1930 • Bulgarian/American • Painter • School of Paris
" I love so much to squander money about." - Jules Pascin
Pascin was so skilled a draftsman that some critics said his OIL PAINTINGS were "drawings heightened by paint." He worked as an illustrator and caricaturist with an often biting edge, and he chronicled his travels in Europe, America, and North Africa. His PRINTS usually were made by using a sharp needle to draw directly on copper, called drypoint (see INTAGLIO). A large part of Pascin's oeuvre was devoted to erotic studies of prostitutes, such as Back View of Venus (1924-25), a nude, seen from behind, strongly outlined to follow the voluptuous contours and fleshy volume of her torso. Pascin became so closely associated with such images that his work was sometimes called the "mirror of prostitutes." The son of a Sephardic grain merchant, Pascin worked for his father before, at the age of 17, he ran away from home to devote his life to the art he had previously practiced in secret. He studied in Munich, went to Paris in 190 5, and changed his name from Pincas to Pascin. He spent time in the United States, becoming a citizen, but returned to Paris in 1920. While he lived in New York he wrote the letter from which the quotation above is taken. In the same letter he said he was increasingly indifferent to success and attracted to life's pleasures. But he was also so absorbed by thoughts of death that, in 1924, Andre Salmon dedicated a poem to him entitled Death and Her Mistresses. Pascin committed suicide in Paris in 1930, leaving behind a strange letter with instructions for a Jewish burial. "His gift seemed to excel in handling unsavory themes in such a manner as to discover an element of the sublime in them," the historian Waldemar George has written. "In spite of their morbidly erotic quality, his drawings thus avoid becoming pornographic."
Not found Jules Pascin? Please request a quote for any art reproduction.