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1930 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France - 2002 San Diego, California. Known for: "nana" female figure sculptures, paintings, assemblages.
Niki de Saint Phalle was born Catherine Marie-Agnes Fal de Saint Phalle at Neuilly-sur-Seine, and was the second of five children of Jeanne Jacqueline, nee Harper and Andre Marie de Saint Phalle, a... Read full biography
Niki de Saint Phalle was born Catherine Marie-Agnes Fal de Saint Phalle at Neuilly-sur-Seine, and was the second of five children of Jeanne Jacqueline, nee Harper and Andre Marie de Saint Phalle, a banker. In the early 1930s, her father lost all the family money in the stock market crash of 1929,... Read full biography
Niki de Saint Phalle was born Catherine Marie-Agnes Fal de Saint Phalle at Neuilly-sur-Seine, and was the second of five children of Jeanne Jacqueline, nee Harper and Andre Marie de Saint Phalle, a banker. In the early 1930s, her father lost all the family money in the stock market crash of 1929, and Niki and her elder brother were separated from their parents and sent to live with paternal grandparents in the Nievre area of France for the next three years. In 1933, the family reunited in... Read full biography
Niki de Saint Phalle was born Catherine Marie-Agnes Fal de Saint Phalle at Neuilly-sur-Seine, and was the second of five children of Jeanne Jacqueline, nee Harper and Andre Marie de Saint Phalle, a banker. In the early 1930s, her father lost all the family money in the stock market crash of 1929, and Niki and her elder brother were separated from their parents and sent to live with paternal grandparents in the Nievre area of France for the next three years. In 1933, the family reunited in Greenwich, Connecticut, and spent summers in France with American maternal grandfather Donald Harper at his chateau . In 1937 the family moved to New York City and lived there for 10 years. Niki started school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, and at... Read full biography
Niki de Saint Phalle was born Catherine Marie-Agnes Fal de Saint Phalle at Neuilly-sur-Seine, and was the second of five children of Jeanne Jacqueline, nee Harper and Andre Marie de Saint Phalle, a banker. In the early 1930s, her father lost all the family money in the stock market crash of 1929, and Niki and her elder brother were separated from their parents and sent to live with paternal grandparents in the Nievre area of France for the next three years. In 1933, the family reunited in Greenwich, Connecticut, and spent summers in France with American maternal grandfather Donald Harper at his chateau . In 1937 the family moved to New York City and lived there for 10 years. Niki started school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, and at this age she was much influenced by comic books and visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She went to a number of schools,... Read full biography
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About Niki de Saint Phalle: Keywords
Keywords (52)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Large Scale, Monumental Artwork
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Art Pottery
- •Assemblage
- •Bronze
- •Ceramic Art, Porcelain, Design and/or Decoration
- •Ceramics
- •Colored Pencil
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Enamel Paint
- •Fiberglass
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Mosaics, Intarsia
- •Oil Paint
- •Painting on Glass, Glass Design, Studio Glass Art
- •Plaster
- •Plastics
- •Polychrome
- •Resin
- •Screenprinting, Serigraphy, Silkscreen
- •Stone and/or Limestone
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Avant-Garde, Groundbreaking, Experimental
- •Performance Art, Happenings
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Feminist Themes, Women's Equality, Feminism
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Hand-Crafted Objects
- •Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Egypt
- •Europe
- •India and/or Burma
- •Russia
- •Sweden
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Karen and Robert Duncan Collection, Lincoln NE
- •The Stuart Collection
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Architectural Design, Drawing, Forms, Decoration
- •Figure Specialty
- •Married to an Artist
- •Self Taught, Autodidact
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Expo '67, Montreal (Centennial Exhibition)
Exhibition of Museum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York