Better known as Kiki de Montparnasse (or the Queen of Montparnasse) but born as Alice Ernestine Prin (1901 – 29 1953). She was a French artist’s model, literary muse, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist, and painter. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture of Paris in the 1920s. Without knowing it I already have…
Category: Models
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo de Rivera (born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón – 1907 – 1954) was a Mexican painter, who mostly painted self-portraits. Inspired by Mexican popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements…
Yvon de Carlo in Slavegirl
There were some images stored on my pc from the lovely Yvon de Carlo and George Brent for the movie Slave Girl (1947) The photographer who took these remains unknown to me.
Louise Weber and Nina Pattes
Lovely ladies partying, photographed by Achille Delmaet. The models are Louise Weber and Nina Pattes. Louise Weber was a French can-can dancer who performed under the stage name of La Goulue (“the glutton”). She also was referred to as the Queen of Montmartre.
Miss Fernande (1893 – 1960)
1893 – 1960 Fernande Barrey about 1908 left her native Picardy to Paris, where she began to make a living as a prostitute. She then became the model for many painters and photographers, including Jean Agélou, Amedeo Modigliani and Chaim Soutine, who persuaded her to study painting and art history at the School of Fine…
Mata Hari (1876 – 1917)
1876 – 1917 Being born Margaretha Geertruida (Griet) Zelle in Leeuwarden she is known by her stage name Mata Hari. Until she was 13 she was lectured French, German and English private lessons. Between 1883 and 1889 she lived with her parents, her father however went broke in 1889 and her parent divorced. Two years…
Fern Andra (1893 – 1974)
1893 – 1974 Fern Andra was an American actress, film director, script writer and producer. Next to Henny Porten and Asta Nielsen she was one of the most popular and best-known actresses in German silent films of the 1910s Born as Vernal Edna Andrews in Watseka, Illinois in 1893, the daughter of a circus performer…
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887 – 1986)
1887 – 1986 O’Keeffe was the second of seven children and the first daughter. She attended Town Hall School in Sun Prairie. By age ten she had decided to become an artist,and she and her sister received art instruction from local watercolorist Sara Mann. O’Keeffe studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago…
Maud d’Orby (unknown)
Maud d’Orby was a model and soprano operetta star. She was portrayed on numerous occasions by Leopold Reutlinger, but appears also in some few semi-nude photographies by Jean Agélou. The photos below are all taken by Jean Agelou. Facebook Albums (click image to open album) Nude with hat (click image to enlarge)
Lina Cavalieri (1874 – 1944)
1874 – 1944 Lina Cavalieri was born on Christmas Day at Rieti, some 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Rome.She lost her parents at the age of fifteen and became a ward of the state, sent to live in a Roman Catholic orphanage. At a young age, she made her way to Paris, France, where her…
Nativa Richard (unknown)
Nativa Richard was the muse for her husband, photographer Yva Richard, who’s name was deducted from Natyva. (It is believed the name for Yva Richard’s Company was inspired by Nativa, who’s real name was Natyva. ) She was a seamstress and most likely responsible for the idea of creating and selling fetish lingerie and accessories…
Mr Steinberg’s Model (unknown)
These photographs capture an Alternative Model in Newcastle, taken on the 22nd of January 1949. The collection is undeniably ahead of its time, the photographs are of an unusually dark and suggestive nature. Nothing is known of their purpose or the model in the photographs; they are simply referred to as ‘Mr Steinberg’s Model.’