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Saint-Phalle, Niki de (1930 - 2002) France
( Biography )Sculptor, writer, stage designer and director of French nationality, despite having spent the first twenty years of her life in the United States. On her return to Europe, she began working according to a style very close to Art Brut. She achieved public recognition through the creation of the series Shots (1960-61), through which she became associated with Nouveau Réalisme. Her sculptures are made up out of "found objects" and plastic toys, in which her preferred themes are monsters and other fantastic creatures. These series showed a certain concern with the representation of women, as in the series Brides. In the second half of the 60s, Saint-Phalle concentrated almost exclusively on monumental sculptures, at times directed especially at children. She produced numerous book illustrations, stage designs for ballet and directed films. In 1986, she published Aids, You Can't Catch it Holding, a combination of text and images. In 1993, she had a major one-woman show at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris and, in 1998, she took part in the Venice Biennale. The spectacular, ostentatious character of her sculptures have much in common with Pop Art.
| | La Mariée, 1963 Assemblage; 182 x 178 x 100 cm
UID 102-508
| No image due to Copyright restrictions. | TIR, c. 1963 Plaster, metal and wood assemblage mounted on wood, sprayed with gold paint; 80 x 86.5 cm
UID 102-509
| | Les Baigneuses, 1985 Painted polyester resin; 274 x 284 x 304 cm
UID 102-732
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