Kiki of Montparnasse Is Brought Back to Life
By Mary Blume
PublisURDAY, JUNE 12, 1999
PARIS: By tparnasse one could, it ticket from Des Moines, Ioo ters ample ists model and good-time girl ;about as close as people get noo being a Queen but t, of course, is very different from being a lady.quot;
o Kikis memoirs, ten in 1929 o be said for ing memoirs ion of t;Memoirs of Montparnasse,quot; completed uberculosis. quot;ted Kikiquot; locals .
quot; in itself … ed a deep scarlet t empic s contours,quot; Glassco e. quot;iful from every angle, but I liked it best in full profile, uffed salmon.quot;
Kiki ed by Soutine, Modigliani, Foujita and Kisling and most famously pograp stormy years. Sclubs, sings at ion of tribune called quot;t successful vernissage of t; and in 1929 parnasse.
te t year last year) in a ricrated edition compiled by Billy Kluver, in Paris a and otists gat imes printed an obituary and Life magazine gave Kiki t;e laug;
Born Alice Ernestine Prin in Burgundy, Kiki c could only lead to lauger. s , to Paris and left Kiki learn muce, because eac 12, so join o find ;to so ;
ened by ing al from o give color to y job at a bakery because s matcicks.
ited into posing for artists, including Utrillo y t I affected by my poverty and o me — I simply didnt understand t;
Large in spirit and, increasingly, in girtos over tural for Montparnasse, but even naturals can use named er breaking up h Man Ray in 1929.
Djuna Barnes ;C; in 1924, an