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{{Short description|French model and painter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Alice Prin | image = Iwata Nakayama – Kiki de Montparnasse and Foujita in Paris, 1926.jpg | caption = "Kiki" and [[Tsuguharu Foujita]], Paris, 1926, by [[Iwata Nakayama]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1901|10|02|df=y}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1953|04|29|1901|10|02|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Châtillon-sur-Seine]], [[Côte-d'Or|Côte d'Or]] | death_place = [[Montparnasse]] | occupation = Model, painter }} [[File:Gwozdecki - Kiki de Montparnasse, 1920.jpg|thumb|Alice Prin (''Kiki''), c. 1920, painted by [[Gustaw Gwozdecki]] (1880–1935)]] [[File:Le Violon d'Ingres.png|thumb|''[[Le Violon d'Ingres]]'', a photo by [[Man Ray]], shows Kiki from the back, nude to below her waist, with two [[f-hole]]s painted on to make her body resemble a violin.{{sfn|Braude|2022}}]] '''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]].{{sfn|Jiminez|2013|pp=438–439}} 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.{{sfn|Braude|2022}}{{sfn|Bocquet|Muller|2021}}
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