Man Ray (1890-1976) (Below)
Retour à la Raison (Torso of Kiki of Montparnasse)
Edition: 'Le Nu', Paris, c. 1945
Intaglio process
Private collection
Le Retour à la Raison (Return to Reason) is a 1923 film directed by Man Ray. It consists of animated textures, Rayographs and the torso of Kiki of Montparnasse.
Alice Ernestine Prin (2 October 1901 – 29 April 1953), nicknamed the Queen of Montparnasse, and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was a French artist's model, literary muse, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist, and painter. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture of Paris in the 1920s.
Gaston Paris (1903-1964) (Below)
Kiki de Montparnasse 1937-1939
An illegitimate child, she was raised in abject poverty by her grandmother. At age twelve, she was sent to live with her mother in Paris in order to find work. She first worked in shops and bakeries, but by the age of fourteen, she was posing nude for sculptors, which created discord with her mother.
Julian Mandel (1872-1935) (Below)
Kiki De Montparnasse
Seitlich nackt/ Naked on the side, c. 1910/1930
Julian Mandel (1872-1935) (Below)
Kiki De Montparnasse
Portrait of a semi-nude woman, c.
circa 1920
Adopting a single name, "Kiki", she became a fixture in the Montparnasse social scene and a popular artist's model, posing for dozens of artists. Her companion for most of the 1920s was Man Ray, who made hundreds of portraits of her. She can be considered his muse at this time.
MAN RAY (1890-1976) (Below)
Le Violon d'Ingres (Kiki of Montparnasse)
Man Ray, with Kiki de Montparnasse, for the photograph: 'Le Violon d'Ingres', 1924.
MAN RAY (1890-1976) (Below)
Le Violon d'Ingres (Kiki of Montparnasse)
A painter in her own right, in 1927 Prin had a sold-out exhibition of her paintings at the Galerie au Sacre du Printemps in Paris. Her drawings and paintings comprise portraits, self-portraits, social activities, fanciful animals, and dreamy landscapes composed in a light, slightly uneven, expressionist style that is a reflection of her easy-going manner and boundless optimism. More on Kiki of Montparnasse
Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27,
1890 – November 18, 1976) was an
American visual artist who spent most of his career in France. He was a
significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties
to each were informal. He produced major works in a variety of media but
considered himself a painter above all. He was best known for his photography,
and he was a renowned fashion and portrait photographer. Man Ray is also noted
for his work with photograms, which he called "rayographs" in
reference to himself. More
on Man Ray
Gaston Paris (1903-1964). At an early age he became a regular at the famous news magazine VU where he was an acquaintance of Man Ray, Kertész and Capa. Apart from this unmitigated news reporting that led him to photograph demonstrations by the Popular Front and the Laval trial as well as behind the scenes at Parisian cabarets, he was devoted to producing small series of photographs where the influence of the surrealists is obvious.
From the end of the thirties, he started to work for Détective, for which he (re) staged news items: a blend of horror and Grand Guignol (melodrama)!
This black and white square format enthusiast who perfectly mastered light and framing, left over fifteen thousand negatives on his death in 1964. They form a marvelous account from the thirties to the fifties, a slice of the history of France in the 20th century. More on Gaston Paris
Julian Mandel (1872-1935) was born in the Elsass (France). Mandel became a well-known photographer of art and eroticism since the beginning of the 20th century. Mandel spent his whole life trying to constitute photography as an art genre. His photographs of female nudes, especially those of Alice Prin, were soon sought after collectibles. Mandel was also a member of the German avant-garde group ‘Neues Zeitalter im Freien’. More on Julian Mandel
Alice Ernestine Prin (October 2, 1901 - April 29, 1953)
Kiki peignant, Paris 1926
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