Tag: Man Ray
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06 works, The Art Of The Nude, MAN RAY’s Kiki of Montparnasse, with footnotes #217
Kiki, 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… Please follow link for full post
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12 Photographs, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Ady Fidelin, the first black model and muse, by Man Ray, Pablo Picasso and Lee Miller, with Footnotes. #171
Ady Fidelin was born in 1915 in Pointe-à-Pitre into one of Guadeloupe’s oldest Creole families, immigrating to France in the wake of the catastrophic 1928 cyclone that devastated the Caribbean, killing thousands. The death of her mother during this traumatic event and the passing of her father a few years later precipitated her migration to…
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Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning 02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #113
Dorothea Margaret Tanning, American painter and writer (born Aug. 25, 1910, Galesburg, Ill. — died Jan. 31, 2012, New York, N.Y.), was a prominent Surrealist, but her artistic career was overshadowed by that of her famous husband, German painter and sculptor Max Ernst, to whom she was married for 30 years (1946–76); her own dreamlike imagery, however,…
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08 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Kiki of Montparnasse, with footnotes # 18
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,…
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04 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #20
John Wesley Jarvis, (American, 1780-1838) Maria Holmes, American 1780-1834) Oil on canvas 28 1/4″ x 24 1/4″ Private collection The subject is depicted in a black dress with lace shawl, her body angled slightly to her right, with part of a red painted chair visible behind her. Mary Jane Holmes (April 5, 1825 – October…
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