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19. Mai 2022 · Man Ray’s Iconic Portrait of Kiki de Montparnasse Is Now the Most Expensive Photo Ever Sold at Auction. The Surrealist and Dada artist superimposed violin f-holes on his muse’s back....
12. Juni 2023 · One such example is Man Ray’s photograph Le Violon D’Ingres, which shows a naked Kiki, seated and viewed from behind, with two ‘f’s on her back. It is both a celebration of her violin curves and a statement that she was, in effect, an instrument for the creation of art.
Le Violon d'Ingres (French for Ingres's Violin) is a black-and-white photograph created by American visual artist Man Ray in 1924. It is one of his best-known photographs and of surrealist photography. The picture was first published in the Surrealist magazine Littérature in June 1924.
23. Aug. 2017 · Behind Man Ray’s Seminal Photograph of Kiki. de Montparnasse. Art & Photography The Story Behind The Image. Courtesy of Taschen. We reveal the story behind Man Ray’s iconic Noir et Blanche, one of the most important examples of Surrealist photography. August 23, 2017. Text Daisy Woodward.
- Daisy Woodward
Kiki Drinking. Man Ray was never much interested in the chemical or optical nature of photography, though he championed several experimental darkroom techniques--solarization, overdevelopment, and overenlargement.
In his early Paris days, Ray also met and fell in love with Kiki de Montparnasse (Alice Prin). Kiki was an artists’ model and became Ray’s companion and muse for most of the 1920s, starring in his experimental films and photographs. She is the model in Ray’s famous 1924 photograph Le Violon d’Ingres.
Alice Prin (Kiki), c. 1920, painted by Gustaw Gwozdecki (1880–1935) Le Violon d'Ingres, a photo by Man Ray, shows Kiki from the back, nude to below her waist, with two f-holes painted on to make her body resemble a violin.
