Kiki from Montparnasse

Kiki de Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a famous Parisian contemporary of Gargallo, was very popular in the artistic circles of the time and a frequent muse and model for various artists, some as notable as Fujita and Man Ray, who left us excellent photographs of her image. physical. He never posed for Pablo, but, nevertheless, he dedicated one of his most paradigmatic works to him, this concave mask to be cast in bronze (the first and only one of his entire production) in which he applied many of his newest findings with unsurpassed mastery and astonishing efficiency. expressive and the most significant and synthetic resources of representation that he had tested and come to absolutely master, or that he would apply in the future, in the execution of his sheet metal masks. The ink drawing Kiki, 1928, is also preserved, which represents her in full body, walking down the street and wearing her unmistakable garçon hairstyle.