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TO BE INCLUDED IN VOL. V OF THE FORTHCOMING JULES PASCIN CATALOGUE RAISONNé BEING PREPARED BY GUY KROHG, KLAUS PERLS AND ABEL RAMBERT.
BORN IN BULGARIA AND BEGINNING HIS CAREER AS A HUMOUROUS ILLUSTRATOR FOR SUCH INFLUENTIAL PUBLICATIONS AS SIMPLICISSIMUS AND LATER BECOMING A CENTRAL FIGURE OF THE PRE-WAR PARISIAN AVANT-GARDE, THE CENTRAL THEME OF PASCIN'S ART WAS ALWAYS THE PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN. RETURNING TO PARIS IN 1920 AFTER TRAVELS IN THE U.S.A. AND CUBA, PASCIN'S WORK OF THE 1920'S IS ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED TO THIS SUBJECT. SURROUNDED BY WOMEN IN HIS STUDIO, AND IT SEEMS, IN MUCH OF HIS PRIVATE LIFE, PASCIN ALWAYS SOUGHT TO PORTRAY THE FEMALE FIGURE BOTH SENSUOUSLY AND OBJECTIVELY AND TO USE IT AS A MEANS OF CONVEYING A MOOD. OFTEN SHOWN NUDE OR IN A STATE OF PARTIAL UNDRESS, PASCIN'S CONTROL OF COMPOSITION, DELICATE COLOUR AND LINE IN HIS EVOCATION OF WOMEN IS SUBTLY EMPLOYED TO CREATE A VARIETY OF ATMOSPHERES THAT ARE OFTEN PERVADED BY A GENTLE EROTICISM.
BORN IN BULGARIA AND BEGINNING HIS CAREER AS A HUMOUROUS ILLUSTRATOR FOR SUCH INFLUENTIAL PUBLICATIONS AS SIMPLICISSIMUS AND LATER BECOMING A CENTRAL FIGURE OF THE PRE-WAR PARISIAN AVANT-GARDE, THE CENTRAL THEME OF PASCIN'S ART WAS ALWAYS THE PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN. RETURNING TO PARIS IN 1920 AFTER TRAVELS IN THE U.S.A. AND CUBA, PASCIN'S WORK OF THE 1920'S IS ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED TO THIS SUBJECT. SURROUNDED BY WOMEN IN HIS STUDIO, AND IT SEEMS, IN MUCH OF HIS PRIVATE LIFE, PASCIN ALWAYS SOUGHT TO PORTRAY THE FEMALE FIGURE BOTH SENSUOUSLY AND OBJECTIVELY AND TO USE IT AS A MEANS OF CONVEYING A MOOD. OFTEN SHOWN NUDE OR IN A STATE OF PARTIAL UNDRESS, PASCIN'S CONTROL OF COMPOSITION, DELICATE COLOUR AND LINE IN HIS EVOCATION OF WOMEN IS SUBTLY EMPLOYED TO CREATE A VARIETY OF ATMOSPHERES THAT ARE OFTEN PERVADED BY A GENTLE EROTICISM.