The 86-year-old Man Ray had outlived most of his closest contemporaries when he died in Paris in 1976. Tristan Tzara, the impresario of Dada, conked off on Christmas Day 1963. André Breton, the petty ...

"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 ...

Mark Braude’s biography of a bohemian icon makes a case for Kiki de Montparnasse as an artist in her own right. Born Alice Prin, Kiki de Montparnasse came to embody the spirit of the Left Bank. Credit ...

Man Ray (1890–1976) is a peculiar choice for the Yale University Press’s “Jewish Lives” series. Not that he wasn’t Jewish; in fact, his early life followed a traditional course for American Jews of ...