“Le Violon d’Ingres” (“Ingres’s Violin”) is one of the most iconic images in the history of photography, shot in 1924 by the American expatriate Man Ray (né Emmanuel Radnitzky), whose ...

"Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris" by Mark Braude. You may have seen the famous picture of her nude back marked with the sound holes of a violin, which recently sold for $12.4 ...

KIKI MAN RAY: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris. By Mark Braude. We open just as Kiki de Montparnasse begins to sing. It’s a scene narrated in the present tense, stitched together from a ...

Some of Man Ray’s best-known photographs include Noire et Blanche (1926), Lune sur le Visage (1930), and Le Violon d’Ingres (1924), the last of which nearly tripled the record for most ...

Mark Braude’s new biography, “Kiki Man Ray,” visits a place of perennial interest — Left Bank Paris in the 1920s — through the life of the singer, model, memoirist and muse. On this week ...

“Kiki Man Ray,” by Mark Braude (W.W. Norton) You may have seen the famous picture of her nude back marked with the sound holes of a violin, which recently sold for $12.4 million, the highest ...

Kiki de Montparnesse, born Alice Prin, was much more than just an inspiration for others, says Mark Braude in his new biography. Skip to Content Get the Canadian news and perspectives you need at ...

Kiki Man Ray, by Mark Braude (Norton).Kiki de Montparnasse was born Alice Prin, in a village far from the cosmopolitan Parisian enclave whose name she later adopted. One of the most popular ...

"Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris" by Mark Braude. You may have seen the famous picture of her nude back marked with the sound holes of a violin, which recently sold for $12.4 ...

KIKI MAN RAY. By Mark Braude. W.W. Norton. 304 pages. $30. You may have seen the famous picture of her nude back marked with the sound holes of a violin, which recently sold for $12.4 million, the ...