Pascin

There is a new exhibition opening this week at the Leyton Gallery.
The work is by James Rosen, who is pretty interesting, and it is largely inspired by the artist
Jules Pascin, who was really darn interesting. Pascin embodied that whole between-the-wars period of Montparnasse verve - throwing parties that ended up as scenes in famous novels, studying with Toulouse-Lautrec, drinking with Hemingway, taking ten taxi loads of people out to dinner. Amidst such goings-on he also worked like the devil and produced hundreds of drawings and paintings. Came to a sad end, unfortunately. Ah, la vie, la vie boheme...

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