| Préface de Foujita, six illustrations et reproduction de vingt tableaux de l'auteur, dix photographies de Man Ray. Kiki par Kisling, Foujita, Per Krohg, Hermine David, etc., etc. Edition Originale. Text in French.
Editeur Henri Broca, Paris, 1929
First edition of this gathering of Kikiana including artwork by Kiki and of her by her contemporaries, including Man Ray, Moïse Kisling, Foujita, Per Krohg, and Hermine David.
The 1920s Parisian expatriate community in the Montparnasse area, sometimes named The Montparnos, included major avant-garde artists and writers such as Hemingway (who wrote the preface for the English translation published in 1930), Man Ray, Modigliani, Foujita, Kisling, dada and surrealist writers, and others. Another one of its members was of course Alice Prin (1901-1953), Kiki, nicknamed the "Queen of Montparnasse", an artist, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist, and a muse to many of the Montparnos, rubbing shoulders with Picasso, Laurencin, Cocteau, and Ernst, to name but a few. Around 1921, she became Man Ray's favourite model. He took hundreds of pictures of her, many of which are some of Ray's best-known works; she is notably the one pictured in his famous "Violon d'Ingres" photograph.
Illustrations..44 monochrome plates reproducing portraits of Kiki by various artists, and paintings and drawing by her. Softcover. 174 pages.
Condition..Used. Cover missing. |
