Word: pascin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vivant of the old school; after an operation; in Manhattan. Frank Crowninshield made Vanity Fair a gourmet's selection of new, high-flavored literary and artistic dishes, sandwiched bright new writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anita Loos and E. E. Cummings between the paintings of Matisse, Segonzac, Pascin, Laurencin, and seasoned the whole with Covarrubias caricatures and Steichen photographs. At 71, after observing that "it would make a frightful mess if I died and left all this stuff for other people to take care of," Connoisseur Crowninshield sold his art collection...
...Painter André Dunoyer de Segonzac and French Sculptor Charles Despiau. Highest price of the auction was $7,250 for de Segonzac's vigorously painted French riverside with a church in the background, L'Eglise et La Marne, Champigny. Another notable price was $2,100 for Jules Pascin's Girl in Green and Rose (see cut), a smoldering, libidinous canvas of a young woman en déshabillé, described in the Crowninshield catalog by Critic Lionello Venturi as a matter of "fascinating nacreous nuances." A Rouault-illustrated book brought...
Once a week he shaves and drives himself to Manhattan where he dutifully makes the rounds of 57th Street's art galleries. A great admirer of highbrow art, he speaks with reverence of Picasso, Pascin and the abstractionists, curiously dislikes surrealism. Wherever he goes he makes sketches, works them up later into cartoon ideas...