Jules Pascin

Jules Pascin was born in Vidin, Bulgaria, on 31 March 1885 and died in Paris in June 1930. A painter, draftsman and printmaker who worked in pencil, ink, watercolor and oil, he contributed drawings to the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus, sixty-seven of which appeared between 1905 and 1913, and exhibited at the Berlin Secession, the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants; his work became known in the United States through the Armory Show of 1913. He was closely associated with the École de Paris circle of Chagall, Modigliani and Soutine, and his work is held by the Centre Pompidou and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.