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Saint Phalle
[ seynt fahl; French san fal ]
noun
- Niki de [nik, -ee d, uh, nee-, kee, d, uh], 1930–2002, French sculptor and painter.
Example Sentences
His collection includes individual pieces by renowned women artists, among them Ottilie Wilhelmine Roederstein, Käthe Kollwitz, Meret Oppenheim and Niki de Saint Phalle.
Artist Niki de Saint Phalle did one of her shoot performances — shooting bullets at canvases covered with paint-filled plastic and plaster objects — in the hills above Dwan’s Malibu Colony home.
The resulting painting, explosive with color, was installed alongside Dwan’s swimming pool, next to a cannon made by Saint Phalle’s partner, artist Jean Tinguely.
The museum is showing off its new amplitude with a special exhibition, “Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s,” featuring 94 works, as well as several galleries displaying permanent collection pieces.
She found common ground with artists like Chicago and Niki de Saint Phalle, whose outsize sculptures pay tribute to robust female forms.
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