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Pascin

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[pah-skan] / pɑˈskɛ̃ /

noun

  1. Jules Julius Pincas, 1885–1930, French painter, born in Bulgaria.


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Pascin perfumed his canvases with a gently colored atmosphere.

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Jules Pascin was born in Bulgaria 45 years ago, of a Spanish-Jewish father and a Serbo-Italian mother.

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He Frenchified his name to Pascin, but he was equally at home in Paris, Munich and New York, where he eventually became a U.S. citizen in 1920.

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In time, Pascin perfected the art of sfumato, the soft, smoky blending of tones from light into dark practiced by Da Vinci.

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If these scenes of Greenwich Village bohemia were all Demuth did, he would be remembered as a minor aesthete, somewhere between Aubrey Beardsley and Jules Pascin, though arguably much superior to the latter.

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