#art #history: i should have honoured the memory of kiki de montparnasse (aka: alice prin) on the 2nd of october. trust me, she merits the upkeep of her legacy. if you want to know why, read my thread (below).
#kikiDeMontparnasse #montparnasse #paris #surrealism #artist #muse #illustration #art
**alice prin was unconventionally easy on the eye, so her larder was probably always full. when, aged 12, she emancipated herself from the grandmother who’d barely managed to drag her up, alice fled to paris to live with her mum.**
**it was an arrangement that didn’t last & alice instantly fell in with the artists of montparnasse. she began posing for photographers, painters & film directors.**
**running wit the cool kids necessitated a suitable sobriquet for the new muse.**
**#kiki #paris **
**she chose kiki - &, as she’d carved her niche deep in the 14th**
**arrondissement, it was only natural to add ‘de montparnasse’.
six years with man ray did not tame her & kiki probably didn’t much flinch when he took up with lee miller. **
**alice was nothing if not resourceful. she’d been painting stuff, anyway, so had a wildly successful exhibition of her own. by her 28th year, paris creatives had crowned her ‘queen of montparnasse’. **
**#kikiDeMontparnasse #manray #illustration #art**
**1929 also saw the publication of her autobiography, for which hemingway wrote the introduction. that boon didn’t spare its being**
**banned by the US government.
bohemian living isn’t the healthiest & kiki’s life ended in 1953 when she collapsed on the pavement outside her flat. **
**with that, tsuguharu foujita proclaimed the glory days of montparnasse to have died along with their queen.**
**#leonardFoujita #kikiDeMontparnasse #alicePrin #montparnasse #literature #hemingway **