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This video contains photos from the book Kiki’s Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900-1930 by Billy Klüver and Julie Martin, 2002, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York.
Photos are archival and include depictions of Kiki (Alice Prin), Pablo Picasso, Max Jacob, Chaïm Soutine, Guillaume Appolinaire, Amedeo Modigliani, Gertrude Stein, and Moise Kisling, Diego Rivera and others.
Note: “O, Lion, Malheureuse image of sadly fallen kings” and “You carp that swim a hundred years, soft melancholy on your painted face, did death forget you, too?” Are adapted from Appolinaire’s poetry.

O, Lion
Jenni Mansfield Peal (c), also Jennifer M. Peal

I found a razor blade today
It has been many years since I groomed a man
But memory serves again
Sweeping aside her golden drapery
Paris smiles out on a century
I was a barber then
Upon its edge, a drop of blood
My eyes can find it yet
My hand shook as it touched his neck
Picasso and his cigarette

He sat surrounded by his friends
Max reeking ether, derelict Soutine
The out worlds newest men
Then, when a war consumed her sons
France found new patriots in the foreign born
Some cruel step-motherland
Appolinaire breaths regret
There’s so much left to do
O, Lion, malheureuse image
Of sadly fallen kings …

But some of us have live to sin
Me and the Spaniard,
We survived them all
What else could we do
You carp that swim a hundred years
Soft melancholy on your painted face
Did death forget you, too?

Appolinaire breaths regret
There’s so much left to do
O, Lion, malheureuse image
Of sadly fallen kings …

Oh, Lion, malheureuse image
Of sadly fallen kings …