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Pascin
[pah-skan]
noun
Jules Julius Pincas, 1885–1930, French painter, born in Bulgaria.
Example Sentences
In exploring the artistic ferment of Paris between the wars, that book turned the spotlight away from Pablo Picasso and his circle and onto the lesser-known coterie of Jewish expatriates from the Russian empire, artists like Marc Chagall, Sonia Delaunay and Jules Pascin.
Influenced by Paris and his friendship with Jules Pascin, a painter of disheveled women, he starts painting from life, improving the realism of the Soyer brothers, Reginald Marsh and Pascin himself.
Amedeo Modigliani’s sleek, sexy nudes, Marc Chagall’s symbol-laden fantasias on Jewish village life, Chaim Soutine’s visceral portraits and still lifes conjured up entirely different worlds and emotions; work by their peers ranged from Jules Pascin’s sharply observed street scenes to Jacques Lipchitz’s abstract sculptures.
Pascin is the sole School of Paris artist beyond the big three to get even a mini-biography, and it is jarringly inserted into a chapter about the Depression’s impact.
During the weeks in Paris, Guillaume led Barnes to the works of other foreign Montparnasse artists, and he bought paintings by Modigliani, Jules Pascin and Moïse Kisling as well as sculptures by Lipchitz.
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