Julie Martin (1901–1953)

Alice Prin, nicknamed Queen of Montparnasse at age 28, and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was born in poverty in Châtillon-sur-Seine, France. At age 12, she went to Paris, where she became an artist's model, nightclub singer, and actress whose face and body were immortalized in works by Fernand Léger, Maurice Utrillo, and Man Ray, among dozens of other artists. She became a painter herself and wrote her autobiography before dying at age 51. Kiki de Montparnasse helped define, and epitomized, the bohemian 1920s culture of Paris.