Artwork
Seated Model
Seated Model is an oil painting by the Realist artist Jules Pascin. It dates from 1925 and is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Subject & Meaning
Pascin’s treatment highlights the model’s vulnerability and sensuality, using straightforward representation rather than elaborate allegory to convey intimacy.
The painting shows a seated female model rendered in oil on canvas, presenting a nude portrait that emphasizes the sitter’s relaxed posture and direct gaze. Pascin’s treatment highlights the model’s vulnerability and sensuality, using straightforward representation rather than elaborate allegory to convey intimacy. The work’s subject functions as a study of the human form, reflecting the artist’s focus on contemporary portraiture that blends realism with a subtle erotic undertone.
Its formal qualities, compact dimensions and restrained composition, underscore the intimate, observational character typical of Pascin’s 1920s output.
Technique & Style
Seated Model is executed in oil paint on canvas, a standard support for Pascin's portrait work. The canvas measures 100.3 cm in height by 81.3 cm in width, giving the composition a vertical orientation suited to a seated figure. Classified as a painting in the portrait genre, the work is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The medium and dimensions are consistent with Pascin's established practice of working in oil on canvas at this scale during the mid-1920s.
History & Provenance
Seated Model is an oil on canvas portrait painted by Jules Pascin in 1925. The work depicts a nude woman in a seated pose and was created as a portrait. Its creation date is recorded as 1925, and it is executed in oil paint on canvas.
The painting is presently part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, which holds it in its permanent holdings. No further details about prior owners or commissioning circumstances are documented in the available sources.
Seated Model, an oil-on-canvas portrait by Jules Pascin dated 1925, is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. According to Wikidata records, the painting's dimensions are 100.3 cm in height by 81.3 cm in width. The work depicts a woman in a nude portrait composition. No specific accession number or detailed exhibition history is documented in the available sources.
Overview
Jules Pascin's 1925 oil painting, Seated Model, presents a bare figure in a contemplative pose. This work exemplifies the artist's characteristic approach to the human form, rendered with a distinctive painterly quality. The piece is part of the collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, representing a significant example of Pascin's output from the mid-1920s.
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Artist
Julius Mordecai Pincas (March 31, 1885 – June 2, 1930), known as Pascin (French: erroneously or ), Jules Pascin, also known as the "Prince of Montparnasse", was a Bulgarian artist of the School of Paris, known for his paintings and…
