JULES PASCIN | Les Nouveaux modèles

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

Sold

2,500 USD

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Description

Attributed to Jules Pascin
Les Nouveaux modèles
Signed Pascin and stamped with the estate stamp (lower right)
Watercolor and brush and ink on paper

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Lucy Krohg, Paris
Umeda Gallery, Tokyo (and sold: Sotheby's, London, April 2, 1981, lot 519)
Acquired at the above sale

Catalogue Note

“Pascin…has taken woman much as she is, sometimes with flaws, often lovely, and he has shown us that her body need be neither a mirror of divine perfection nor the object of humiliation and shame, but simply beautiful in the fact of its existence”
—Tom L. Freudenheim

This work will be included in the forthcoming supplement to the catalogue raisonné being prepared by Abel and Gérard Rambert.