Alice Prin

Alice Prin
"Kiki" and Tsuguharu Foujita, Paris, 1926, by Iwata Nakayama
Born(1901-10-02)2 October 1901
Died29 April 1952(1952-04-29) (aged 50)
Occupation(s)Model, painter
Alice Prin (Kiki), c. 1920, painted by Gustaw Gwozdecki (1880–1935)
Le Violon d'Ingres, a photo by Man Ray, shows Kiki from the back, nude to below her waist, with two f-holes painted on to make her body resemble a violin.[1]

Alice Ernestine Prin (2 October 1901 – 29 April 1953), nicknamed the Queen of Montparnasse and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was a French model, chanteuse, memoirist and painter during the Jazz Age.[2] She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture of Paris in the so-called Années folles ("crazy years" in French). She became one of the most famous models of the 20th century and in the history of avant-garde art.[1][3]


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