Editing Alice Prin (section)

== Death and legacy ==
Prin died at age 51 on 29 April 1953 after collapsing outside her flat in Montparnasse, apparently of complications of alcoholism or drug dependence.{{sfn|Blume|1999}} At the time of her death, she weighed {{convert|175|lb}}.{{sfn|Bocquet|Muller|2021|loc=[[Mary Ann Caws]] at 4:40}} A large crowd of artists and admirers attended her Paris funeral and followed the procession to her interment in the ''[[Cimetière parisien de Thiais]]''. Her tomb identifies her as: "Kiki, 1901–1953, singer, actress, painter, Queen of Montparnasse".{{sfn|Baxter|2014|p=16}}

''Life'' magazine featured a three-page obituary of Prin in its 29 June 1953 edition, concluding with a memory from one of her friends who said: "We laughed, my God how we laughed."{{sfn|Blume|1999}} Tsuguharu Foujita remarked that, with Kiki's death, the glorious days of Montparnasse were buried forever.

Long after her death, Prin remains the embodiment of the outspokenness, audacity and creativity that marked the interwar period of life in Montparnasse. She represents a strong artistic force in her own right as a woman.{{sfn|Braude|2022}} In 1989, biographers [[Billy Klüver]] and Julie Martin called her "one of the century's first truly independent women".{{sfn|Klüver|Martin|1989}} In her honor, a [[daylily]] has been named ''Kiki de Montparnasse''.

On 14 May 2022, ''[[Le Violon d'Ingres]]'', which depicts Prin's back overlaid with a violin's [[f-hole]]s, sold for $12.4 million, setting a record as the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction.{{sfn|Braude|2022}}{{sfn|Villa|2022}}