Dancer

Alice Prin

French painter (1901–1953)

Born 1901 · Châtillon-sur-SeineDied 1953France
Alice Prin
Image: Iwata Nakayama (1895-1949) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Alice Prin was a French dancer, born in 1901 in Châtillon-sur-Seine, who died in 1953.

Biography

Alice Ernestine Prin (2 October 1901 – 29 April 1953), nicknamed the Queen of Montparnasse and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was a French model, chanteuse, memoirist and painter during the Jazz Age. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture of Paris in the so-called Années folles ("crazy years" in French). She became one of the most famous models of the 20th century and in the history of avant-garde art.

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Contemporaries

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