Jules Pascin

Perls Galleries, New York
Private Collection, Paris

New York, Perls Galleries, Portraits and Models, 1962, no. 2, illustrated in the catalogue

Yves Hemin, Guy Krohg, Klaus Perls & Abel Rambert, Pascin Catalogue raisonné, peintures, aquarelles, pastels, dessins, vol. II, Paris, 1987, no. 443, illustrated p. 189

Oil on canvas, not lined. Surface in generally good condition, aside from some minor abraision and associated loss at extreme edges. Dirty varnish and surface dirt. Under UV light; minor areas of scattered inpainting visible throughout.
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Hermine David was an estabished miniaturist and printmaker when she met Jules Pascin in 1907. Members of l'École de Paris, David and Pascin became lovers and shared a series of studios together in Montmartre and Montparnasse, which is possibly the setting of the present lot. David followed Pascin to the United States in 1915, where they wed and remained until the culmination of World War I.