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cuckoo for kiki
Alice Prin was born in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Côte d’Or. An illegitimate child, she experienced great hardship while growing up. Her beauty, though, led her to become a life model for artists. She adopted the name Kiki and became known as Kiki de Montparnasse. Kiki was multi-talented, gifted at painting, and she eventually wrote her own memoirs…
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the devil went down to montparnasse
Sacha frequently contributed to the magazine Le Sourire, which was founded by Paul Gauguin and later taken over by Maurice Méry. Under Méry, the magazine adapted a more humorist and sexual style through its articles and sketches. Sacha contributed two such sketches including the devil that I could find, one published 26th April 1928 (source)…
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a portrait of tsuguharu foujita
Like Sacha, Tsuguharu Foujita was enamoured with Montparnasse and became a prominent member of its artistic community. He travelled from his home country of Japan in 1913, only three years after Sacha arrived in 1910 (see Sacha’s biography). He altered the spelling of his name from Fujita to Foujita during this time, and adopted the…
A Study of Sacha Zaliouk 