08 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Kiki of Montparnasse, with footnotes # 18

Man Ray (1890-1976) (Below)
Retour à la Raison (Torso of Kiki of Montparnasse)

Edition: ‘Le Nu’, Paris, c. 1945
Intaglio process
Private collection

Le Retour à la Raison (Return to Reason) is a 1923 film directed by Man Ray. It consists of animated textures, Rayographs and the torso of Kiki of Montparnasse. 

Alice Ernestine Prin (2 October 1901 – 29 April 1953), nicknamed the Queen of Montparnasse, and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was a French artist’s model, literary muse, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist, and painter. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture of Paris in the 1920s.

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