Niki de Saint Phalle Figurative Sculptures

A sculpture by Niki de Saint Phalle. "The Couple" is a contemporary, figurative scultpure, polyester resin in vibrant colors by French female artist Niki de Saint Phalle. The artwork...

Niki de Saint Phalle, Nana Sitting on a Snake 1984 Resin sculpture hand painted by the artist, signed and numbered at the base below. Original work of 7 copies. Niki de Saint Phalle is a French artist known for her colorful sculptural female silhouettes called Nanas whose varied shapes and sizes embody the feminist spirit of Saint Phalle. She is part of the New Realism movement with Christo, Yves Klein and Jean Tinguely. Born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle on October 29, 1930 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, she is a self-taught artist who began to produce works as a therapy. Early in his career, de Saint Phalle was inspired by the architecture of Antoni Gaudí while on vacation in Spain and planned to create a room on the same level as the famous Parc Güell...

Niki de Saint Phalle, Little Camel 1986 Painted polyester resin. Signed and numbered ‘xx/50 Niki de Saint Phalle’ (on a metal plate below the front leg); and with the publisher’s stamp ‘R HALIGON’ (below the front tab). Niki de Saint Phalle is a French artist known for her colorful sculptural female silhouettes called Nanas whose varied shapes and sizes embody the feminist spirit of Saint Phalle. She is part of the New Realism movement with Christo, Yves Klein and Jean Tinguely. Born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle on October 29, 1930 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, she is a self-taught artist who began to produce works as a therapy. Early in his career, de Saint Phalle was inspired by the architecture of Antoni Gaudí while on vacation in Spain and planned to create a room on the same level as the famous Parc...

Niki de Saint-Phalle, The Dog 1992 Vase in painted resin, iron and ceramic, and a metal plate inlaid in the resin and marked with the foundry seal “Résines R. Haligon d’Art” in the hollow of the vase. Edition of 50 copies + 10 AP. Niki de Saint Phalle is a French artist known for her colorful sculptural female silhouettes called Nanas whose varied shapes and sizes embody the feminist spirit of Saint Phalle. She is part of the New Realism movement with Christo, Yves Klein and Jean Tinguely. Born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle on October 29, 1930 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, she is a self-taught artist who began to produce works as a therapy. Early in his career, de Saint Phalle was inspired by the architecture of Antoni Gaudí while on vacation in Spain and planned to create a room on the same level as the famous Parc Güell...

Original sculpture, signed and numbered 3/8 ex. Painted polyester with aluminium base. The sculpture is from a serie with different jazz motive, one sculpture is outside the Hôtel Negresco in Nice One of the example is donated by Niki de Saint-Phalle to the Modern Museum ”Mamac” in Nice and is represented in their collection. Niki de Saint-Phalle was born 1930 in Neuilly sur Seine, France. She was daughter to a French father and an American mother and she spent most of her childhood in New York. In 1952 she moved to Paris where she meets with other artists, among others Jean Tinguely who become her artistic collaborator whom she married in 1971. After Jean Tinguely’s passing 1991 she got health problems which made her move in 1994 to La Jolla in California where she died in 2002. As an enfant terrible ever trying to escape the bourgeois existence into which she was born, Niki de Saint-Phalle taught herself painting and rose to artistic prominence through her colorful monumental outdoor sculptures of extravagantly voluptuous female figures. Early in her career, she became known for the abstract paintings she made by placing paint-filled bags above canvases and shooting them—a form of protest against patriarchy and rigidity. Through her “nanas”, a series of life-size papier maché dolls...

Niki de Saint Phalle (born Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle, 29 October 1930 – 21 May 2002) was a French-American sculptor, painter, and filmmaker. Widely noted as one of th...

Polyester Resin, 1994, signed and numbered from the edition of 99 plus 20 artist proofs. production O. Haligon 1992, sizes 14.6 x 12.7 x 7.6 cm.

Hand painted vase Limited edition of 112/150 copies. Free shipment worldwide Niki de Saint-Phalle was born 1930 in Neuilly sur Seine, France. She was daughter to a French father and an American mother and she spent most of her childhood in New York. In 1952 she moved to Paris where she meets with other artists, among others Jean Tinguely who become her artistic collaborator whom she married in 1971. After Jean Tinguely’s passing 1991 she got health problems which made her move in 1994 to La Jolla in California where she died in 2002. As an enfant terrible ever trying to escape the bourgeois existence into which she was born, Niki de Saint-Phalle taught herself painting and rose to artistic prominence through her colorful monumental outdoor sculptures of extravagantly voluptuous female figures. Early in her career, she became known for the abstract paintings she made by placing paint-filled bags above canvases and shooting them—a form of protest against patriarchy and rigidity. Through her “nanas”, a series of life-size papier maché dolls...

tabletop sculpture of figures holding a moon