Julius Mordecai Pincas, known as Pascin or Jules Pascin, was a Bulgarian-born painter who lived from 1885 to 1930. He was born in Vidin, Bulgaria to a Spanish-Sephardic Jewish father and a Serbian-Italian mother. Pascin spent most of his life in France, though he studied in Vienna and Munich as a young student and lived in the United States during World War 1. He married fellow painter Hermine David and produced numerous portraits of her as well as other paintings of nudes, figures, and Cuban and New Orleans scenes.