Aïcha Goblet (born Madeleine Julie Gobelet) (28 February 1894 - 27 June 1972) was a French artists' model and dancer, a figure of the Années folles in 1920s Paris.
Madeleine Julie Gobelet was born on 28 February 1894 at Renescure, a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
[4] Later, many false or hard-to-verify accounts of her youth were circulated in the press: it was said (or she herself said) that she was born in Hazebrouck[5] or Roubaix,[6] that her parents had ten children,[7] or that she started out as a circus rider at the age of 6.
[11] Other artists of the period took her as their model, including Félix Vallotton, Man Ray, Henri Matisse, Tsuguharu Foujita and Moïse Kisling.
[7] the plays included Le Simoun (1920), Haya (1922) and À l'ombre du mal (1924) by Henri-René Lenormand.
In 1925, in Paul Demasy's play La Cavalière Elsa, based on the novel by Pierre Mac Orlan[13] Aïcha appeared with bare breasts, at a time when nudity was not yet accepted on stage.
[21] In 1928, she appeared nude in Simon Gantillon's Départs, eliciting ambiguous reviews: whilst her performance was praised, it was described through a racist viewpoint and language.
[25] At the turn of the 1930s, her modelling career over, she continued to frequent the cafés of Montparnasse and recounted her memories to journalists such as Henri Broca and Emmanuel Bourcier.
[11] In 2018, Villa La Fleur, a private Polish museum, presented portraits of Aïcha Goblet in an exhibition entitled Kobiety Montparnassu (The Women of Montparnasse).