Beschreibung:

Pascin, Jules 1883-1930 Bulgarian/Jewish/French, Two Women on a Couch. 9.25 x 13.25 ins., (23.5 x 33.5 cms.), Watercolour and Ink, Signed Pascin was a remarkable man and painter. He left his family at the age of 16 and was led into the ways of the flesh by a brothel owner in Munich, which must have coloured his attitude for the rest of his life. Through this woman he was led to vice in all its sordid aspects. He loved it; to him it was an aesthetic experience for the benefit of his art. He then moved via Budapest to his ultimate goal, Paris. There he found just what he was looking for, Paris of the night. He joined a large Jewish colony of mostly East Europeans in Montparnasse and then moved to Montmartre. Here he met all the leading artists and found colour, gaiety and every kind of vice. He was completely non judgemental of his subject matter. He was an extremely intelligent man interested in many matters outside art. Pascin was oblivious of artistic fashions and continued to develop his art his own way. He was in command of his expressive line and depicted beautifully the delicacy and opalescence of his flesh tints. He thus concentrated on many paintings of the nude. His colours merge and blend somewhat as the effect of pastel. His backgrounds are always vague, the figure appears to come out of a dream. Pascin painted the most interesting and beautiful nudes. Sadly Pascin continued all his life to lead as dissipated a life as possible, though he gained great success selling his paintings. Finally he was unable to gain any further sensations from his drugs, women and drink, bored with his life, he hung himself on his studio doorway.