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 price ever paid for a photograph at auction. Or, if ...

A woman poses naked, her back to the camera, her face turned mostly away from the viewer, revealing a hint of an aquiline nose and kohled eye. A turban is on her head, an ornate earring dangling from ...

'Kiki de Montparnasse' was the unwary muse of major avant-garde painters of the early twentieth century. Memorable witness of a flamboyant Montparnasse, she emancipated from her status as a simple ...

Try to find out virtually anything about Kiki de Montparnasse online — I was looking for “The Acrobat,” a painting she made in 1927, late in her heyday as the queen of avant-garde Paris — and you run ...

This cover image released by W.W. Norton shows Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris" by Mark Braude. (W.W. Norton via AP) “Kiki Man Ray,” by Mark Braude (W.W. Norton) You may have seen ...

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 ...