Alice Prin

Kiki de Montparnasse is one of those figures who seems almost too vivid to have been real — and yet she absolutely was. Born Alice Prin in a small Burgundy town in 1901, she showed up in Paris essentially penniless and somehow became the beating heart of the entire Montparnasse scene in the 1920s. She modeled for Man Ray, Modigliani, Foujita, and a who's-who of the avant-garde, sang raucous chansons at the Jockey Club, painted canvases of her own, and wrote memoirs that Ernest Hemingway called the real thing. She wasn't just a muse — she was an artist, a performer, a force of personality who shaped the culture around her rather than simply decorating it. Fifty-one years was nowhere near enough, but what a fifty-one years it was.

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Name (English)

Alice Prin

Name (Japanese)

アリス・プラン

Reading

ありす・ぷらん

Born

October 2, 1901 – March 23, 1953

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Ox

Origin

Châtillon-sur-Seine, Côte-d’Or, France

Occupation

actor / painter / art model / singer / dancer

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Prin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152807

Tags

• Côte-d’Or
• actor
• painter
• art model

Last updated

2026-06-02

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