#29Aprile

#AccaddeOggi nel 1953 muoiono il pittore polacco #MoïseKisling naturalizzato francese esponente de l'École de Paris e la modella e attrice francese Alice Prin, nota come #KikiDeMontparnasse

La Frileuse (Kiki de Montparnasse) by Moïse Kisling, 1925

'all i need is an onion, a bit of bread & a bottle of red…& i will always find someone to offer me that.’
#art/#history: it helped that alice prin (born #otd in 1901) was unconventionally & extraordinarily easy on the eye. when, at the age of twelve, she broke free from the
grandmother who’d barely managed to drag her up, alice fled to paris to live with her mother. it was an arrangement that didn’t last & alice almost immediately fell in with the artists of montparnasse. she began posing (sometimes nude) for photographers, painters & film directors. running with the cool kids meant the muse needed a suitable moniker. she chose kiki - &, as she’d carved her niche deep in the 14th arrondissement, it was only natural that she added ‘de montparnasse’ as her new surname. six years with man ray did not tame her & kiki probably didn’t flinch much when he dumped her for lee miller.
#mastoArt #kikiDeMontparnasse #paris #portrait #illustration