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Hermine David
(1886-1970) Hermine David, alongside her husband Jules Pascin, was a French painter who was one of the École de Paris artists, a group of non-French artists working in Paris prior to World War I. In 1902, at the age of 16, David was accepted into L’École des Beaux Arts which had opened to women only 2 years prior. By 1907, when she met Jules Pascin, David had already established herself as a successful young painter, miniaturist and printmaker. She and Pascin quickly became steady companions, living in a series of studios in Montmartre and Montparnasse then travelling to America in 1915, where they married a few years later. David, upon her return to France in 1920, was given an exhibition in London and several one-person shows at prominent Paris galleries. Even though her most notable works are dated to the 1920s and 1930s, she was active into the 1960s and won a watercolor prize at the Biennale de Deauville in 1965. She died in 1970.