44 - Jules Pascin

Jules Pascin (1885–1930) Jeune fille au fauteuil Paris, 1927 Oil on canvas Signed upper right 100 × 81 cm During the 1920s, Jules Pascin gave his paintings a pearlescent quality. The model’s honey-colored skin blends into the iridescent background. Pascin’s tumultuous relationships with women inspired a risqué graphic novel by Johann Sfar. It is impossible to identify which of the “garçonnes” in the painter’s circle—Lucy Krohg, Hermine David, and others—served as the model for this painting, certainly one of the masterpieces of his pearlescent period. Provenance - Harris Goldstein Collection, Philadelphia - Private collection, Paris Historique des ventes Auction in Paris, Hôtel Drouot, May 6, 1932, lot 107 Auction in New York, Parke-Bennet Galleries, Harris Goldstein Collection, lot 95 Exhibitions New York, Galleries of M. Knoedler & Co., March 10–22, 1930, “Exhibition of Paintings by Jules Pascin,” no. 13 Possibly in New York, Perls Gallery, undated Littérature Yves Hemin, Guy Krohg, Klaus Perls, and Abel Rambert, Pascin. Catalog Raisonné—Paintings, Watercolors, Pastels, Drawings: Volume II, Paris, Ed. Abel Rambert, 1987, no. 941, reproduced in full-page color on p. 273 Rosemarie Napoletano, *Pascin – Catalogue Raisonné*, Paris, Paradox, 2017, p. 945, no. 3180, reproduced in full-page color