Julius Mordecai Pincas (Jules Pascin): A Biography Julius Mordecai Pincas, known universally as Jules Pascin, stands as a singular voice within the School of Paris—a movement that irrevocably altered the landscape of European art at the dawn of the 20th century. Born in Vidin, Bulgaria, on March 31st, 1885, into a wealthy Sephardic Jewish family steeped in grain trading traditions, Pascin’s artistic journey began amidst familial disapproval for his early satirical sketches—a sentiment that spurred him to adopt the enigmatic pseudonym “Pascin,” an anagram of his surname. This deliberate obfus…