KIKI.

£2,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Les Souvenirs de Kiki. First edition, wrappers issue, inscribed by the author in French on the half-title, "to R. P. Lemise, pretty blonde boy, why are you not my lover? Sympathy, Kiki, 1919, July".Alice Ernestine Prin, known widely as Kiki, was the "Queen of Montparnasse". An artist, nightclub singer, and actress, she was the favoured model and muse of the Parisian expatriate community in the 1920s. She worked with Modigliani, Kisling, Soutine, Picabia, Picasso, and particularly Man Ray, with whom she had an intense eight-year love affair. Souvenirs is her candid account of a star-studded life at the centre of Paris's artistic circles. It is introduced by Foujita, who remarks with awe that when he first painted Kiki, he was left confused as to which of them was really the artist.

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