Reclining Young Girl
1923-1926
Jules Pascin captures a moment of languid repose with his signature sketchy, almost nervous energy. The young woman, draped in a dark, loosely rendered dress, reclines with her arms tucked behind her head, gazing upward in a dreamy, detached state. Pascin, a key figure of the School of Paris in the roaring twenties, was famous for his intimate, often melancholic portraits of women that blended expressionist flair with a raw, unpolished charm. The visible, rapid strokes give the piece a fleeting, snapshot-like quality, as if we've just stumbled upon a private, quiet moment.
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