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Niki de Saint Phalle

Niki de Saint Phalle (1930 - 2002) was active/lived in California, New York / France.  Niki de Saint Phalle is known for "nana" female figure sculptures, paintings, assemblages.

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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, and at the Brearley School, she became interested in literature, especially the work of Edgar Allan   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 49511 characters.]  Artist bio

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