Listed Bulgarian Artist Jules Pascin* created this Portrait of Pierre Mac Orlan (1882-1970), a noted French writer and songwriter. It is an Original Aquatint Etching, published no later than the 1940's-50's. An Associated American Artists label is on the reverse along with the stamp of an art dealer/gallery in Maine. It is Titled, "Portrait of a Writer", and says it is a Limited Edition of 60. It is a Dark, Strong rendering of Mac Orlan with a stern, concentrated expression. This piece is not signed.
1/2" Wide, Rounded Antiqued Silver wood moulding with a mat and glass, are included in this listing.
Image measures 3 3/4 X 5 1/4 and is in Good Vintage/Antique condition
Image (mat) opening measures 4 1/4 X 6 and is in Good Vintage/Antique condition.
Outside measure of the frame is 10 3/4 X 12 3/4 and is in Fair condition w/ scuffs throughout.
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*Jules Pascin (1885-1930) Jules Pascin, original name Julius Pincas, (born, Vidin, Bulgaria—died, Paris, France), Bulgarian-born American painter, renowned for his delicate draftsmanship and sensitive studies of women. Born of Italian Serbian and Spanish Jewish parents, Pascin was educated in Vienna before he moved to Munich, where he attended art school in 1903. Beginning in 1904, his drawings were regularly published in satiric journals such as the Lustige Blätter and Simplicissimus. At the request of his family, who disapproved of his bohemian lifestyle, he changed his name to Pascin in 1905. That same year he moved to Paris, where he continued to produce tragically satiric drawings of the demimonde. He was embraced by members of the Parisian art world.
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. He became a U.S. citizen in 1920 and returned to Paris later that year. There he began to create a series of large-scale, representational, and very sensitively drawn biblical and mythological paintings. In the 1920's he painted the works for which he is best known, the delicately toned, thinly painted, but poetically bitter and ironic studies of women, usually prostitutes. He was a financially successful artist, but he continued to lead a life of debauchery and excess. On the eve of an important one-man show of his work, Pascin hanged himself.
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