Artist Muse
Julien Mandel - Photographer
HER PAINTINGS
THE BOOK
Kiki's Souvenir / Kiki's Memoirs published in 1929 autobiography by Alice Prin
Translated from the French by Samuel Putnam
published in Manhattan by Black Manikin Press
intro by hemingway
The memoirs were first published in English in 1930, but due to their sometimes explicit content, were banned in the United States until the 1970s.
A copy of the first US edition (1930) was held in the section for banned books in the New York Public Library through the 1970s.
A new edition, edited by Billy Klüver
Hemingway writes
“This is the only book I have ever written an introduction for, and God help me, the only one I ever will… It is written by a woman who, as far as I know, never had a Room of Her Own… you have a book here written by a woman who was never a lady at any time. For about ten years she was about as close as people get nowadays to being a Queen but that, of course, is very different from being a lady.”
Souvenirs retrouvés ( published 2005)
by kiki
1929. Paris s'amuse... avant la crise. Une petite fille de rien du tout est élue Reine de Montparnasse. Man Ray publie d'elle des photos coquines et Ernest Hemingway rédige une préface pour l'édition américaine de ses Souvenirs. Kiki, vingt-huit ans, a déjà connu Modigliani et Soutine, Desnos et Kisling... La censure américaine ne supportera pas le style leste de ses histoires et le livre entrera dans la légende, interdit comme Ulysse de Joyce. Et pourtant le texte de 1929 nous semble bien édulcoré, très en deçà de l'extraordinaire version définitive rédigée neuf ans plus tard et disparue depuis soixante-cinq ans. Le manuscrit gisait au milieu de milliers de cartons avec, sur une petite étiquette de bristol, cette simple mention : " infiniment précieux ". Voici enfin les Souvenirs retrouvés de Kiki de Montparnasse, dans une version intégrale au style inégalable et que l'on n'est pas prêt désormais d'oublier. N'ayant rien à prouver, niquiconque à ménager, Kiki se livre sans fard et sans arrière-pensée.
THE LATER YEARS
THE COMIC
Kiki de Montparnasse Author : Catel Muller & Jose-Luis Bocquet
BOOKS
Kiki's Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900-1930
Author : Billy Kluver & Julie Martin
A portrait of Montparnasse in the first decades of the century, this attractive book of some 650 black-and-white photos uses, as a focal point, the artist, artist's model, singer, dancer and actress Kiki (born Alice Ernestine Prin). Proclaimed ``Queen of Montparnasse'' in 1929 by the newspaper Paris-Montparnasse , she was outrageous, charming, beautiful, talented--and so is the Paris that emerges. We see the cafes--Dome, Rotonde, Coupole, etc.--where notable artists Matisse, Modigliani, Picasso, Man Ray, Stein, Leger, Cocteau, Brancusi, Soutine and hundreds of others hung out, the studios in which they worked, the parties they went to, the vacations they took and the galleries where they exhibited. The text, deliberately understated, takes a back seat to the photos, offering introduction, explanation and anecdote. Kluver, president of Experiments in Art and Technology, and Martin, a staff member at the the same foundation, have assembled a lavish, information-packed look at the people and places of an important, exciting era in art history.
Kiki de Montparnasse: Paris in the 1920s
Author : Xavier Girard
From humble origins, Kiki de Montparnasse became the muse of the most important artists of the Roaring Twenties. Many revolutionary artists of the early twentieth century flourished on Paris's Left Bank, and Kiki, the Queen of Montparnasse, was the thread connecting them. Every image tells a fascinating story in this lavishly illustrated volume. Xavier Girard, former curator of the Matisse Museum, reveals the artistic, social, and historical events that created and surrounded the incredible artistic flowering of the mythical Montparnasse neighborhood after World War I. An oversize luxury edition in a slipcase.
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