Jules PASCIN
1885–1930, Bulgaria/France
Name
Jules PASCIN
Birth
1885, Bulgaria
Died
1930, France
Lived & Active In
Paris / New York
Jules Pascin was born in 1885 in Vidin, Bulgaria. His name was Julius Mordecai Pincas and he was the eighth of eleven children of a Spanish Sephardic Jew and his Serbian-Italian wife. He was raised in Bucharest, Romania. He attended art schools in Vienna and Munich and traveled to Berlin and Paris. From 1905 to 1929, he worked as a satirical cartoonist for a Munich weekly. From 1914 to 1920 he lived in America.
Returned to Paris, and from there, traveled throughout Europe and North Africa.
1930, Suffering depression and alcoholism, he committed suicide on the eve of a prestigious solo show by slitting his wrists and hanging himself in his studio in Montmartre.
Source: Art Signature Dictionary