Jules Pascin: 120 Masterpieces

Jules Pascin, or the "Prince of Montparnasse", was a painter born of Italian Serbian mother and Spanish Jewish father, in Principality of Bulgaria. Pascin was educated in Vienna before he moved to Munich, Germany, where he attended art school in 1903. To avoid service in the Bulgarian army, at the outbreak of World War I, Pascin traveled for a time in the United States, spending most of his time in the South. . In 1920, Pascin was awarded American citizenship with support from Alfred Stieglitz and Maurice Sterne. He returned to Paris in October of that same year. Pascin is best known as a painter in Paris, where he was strongly identified with the Modernist movement and the artistic circles of Montparnasse. Pascin created thousands of watercolors and sketches, plus drawings and caricatures, which he sold to various newspapers and magazines. Especially after he returned to France, he became the symbol of the Montparnasse artistic community.