Niki de SAINT-PHALLE (1930-2002)

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Niki de SAINT-PHALLE (1930-2002)
Cat Vase Sculpture in polyester painted in polychromy Signed and justified in a cartel " 19/50 Niki de Saint-Phalle " and stamped in hollow " Plastique d'art. R.Haligon " Model created in 1986 H: 31 L: 40 cm (damaged inner receptacle) Made in 1986, this work bears the number nineteen of an edition of fifty copies and seven artist's proofs. NIKI DE SAINT-PHALLE Niki de Saint-Phalle is a self-taught and protean French painter, sculptor and filmmaker known mainly for her monumental Nanas, colourful and plump women made of polyester, wire mesh and papier-mâché. Like Arman, Tinguely, César, Mimmo Rotella, Christo and Yves Klein, she is a member of the Nouveaux Réalistes group. Her work, committed and feminist, is made of performance paintings, sculptures and psychoanalytical films. She began her artistic research in the 1950s and it was in 1961 that she made herself known to the general public with "Tirs", installations during which spectators shoot at pockets of colour that burst out by splashing plaster assemblages. In collaboration with Jean Tinguely, who would later become her husband, she created the Igor Stravinsky Fountain in front of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, as well as Hon, a monumental woman lying on her back with her legs intertwined at the Museum Moderna in Stockholm. Nanas and other female representations are omnipresent in Niki de Saint Phalle's work, but animals are also prominent. For the artist, the animal is symbolic and very often evokes man. It can also echo events and periods of his life, embodying his anxieties but also the means to transcend them. The snake, for example, which embraces the Nanas but also recalls the terrible summer of his eleventh birthday, what Niki will call "the summer of snakes". If, at the beginning of the sixties, the animal can also be a monster, little by little, this threatening monster disappears from its iconography, it becomes colo
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