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Niki de Saint Phalle    (French, 1930-2002)

 Niki de Saint Phalle - Nana with Handbag (Prints) h: 24.8 x w: 14.2 x d: 6.8 in / h: 63 x w: 36.1 x d: 17.3 cm
Niki de Saint Phalle
Nana with Handbag 2000-2001
 
 Niki de Saint Phalle - Sun God Vase (Sculptures) h: 20.6 x w: 22 x d: 9.2 in / h: 52.3 x w: 55.9 x d: 23.4 cm
Niki de Saint Phalle
Sun God Vase 2001-2003
 
 

Biography
1930 Born Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
2002 Died in San Diego, California
Member of the group 'Nouveau Réalistes'
Participates with Bob Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Jean Tinguely in concert-performance Variations II of John Cage, given to the abassador of the United States in Paris.
With Jean Tinguely and Per Olof Utvedt, builds la Hon, a gigantnic pregnant Chick, laid down on the back, for Moderna Muse and of Stockholm
Wrote and produced her first film, Daddv, in collaboration with Peter Whitehead.
Launch a range of perfumes to finance the construction of the II giardino dei Tarocchi,
François Mitterrand orders from Niki Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely a fountain for the place of the town hall of Castle-Chinon
Creates a series of kinetic reliefs or moving paintings, Tableaux éclatés
Receives the prize 'Caran d' Ache'
Works with the architect, Mario Botta, on the project of the construction, Arche de Noé, a monument for a village in Jerusalem.
She created a head of death of 5m high top, decorated of mosaics on the surface. The interior is a space of meditation entirely covered with mirrors.
In October of 2000, Niki de Saint Phalle received an imperial prize, the same time the American composer, Stephen Sondheim, the American painter, Ellsworth Kelly, the German composer, Hans Werner Henze and the British Architect, Richard Rogers.
In November 17, was signed as the donation of Niki de Saint Phalle in Sprengel Muséum of Hanover.
She made a donation at the Musée d'Art décoratifs in Paris
Donation made of Niki de Saint Phalle in Nice, for the Musée d'Art moderne et d'Art contemporain.

Exhibitions
2008 Niki de Saint Phalle, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England)
2007 Niki de Saint Phalle, Fischerplatz Galerie, Ulm
2006 Niki de Saint Phalle: a retrospective, The Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya
2005 Niki de Saint Phalle: Grafik und Objekte, Galerie am Bom, Wetzlar
2004 Niki de Saint Phalle, Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nuremberg
2003 Exhibition of Niki de Saint Phalle, Ernst Museum Budapest, Budapest
2002 Niki de St. Phalle - Grande retrospective, Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain Nice, Nice
1999 - 2000 Under the title 'Niki de Saint Phalle' --love, protest, imagination the Museum Ulmer organized a retrospect shown in the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen and the Kunsthale of Fremded. In the space of Jean Tinguely, for the exhibition of Niki de Saint Phalle.
1999 Traces, Galerie JGM Paris
1994 - 1999 Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, Colombia
1994 - 1999 Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1994 - 1999 Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil
1994 - 1999 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1994 - 1999 Sala de Exposiciones Edificio CTC, Santiago de Chile, Chili.
1994 - 1999 Created for a dragon for children in stone, glass and cermanic in the south of California
1994 - 1999 Created an angel of 10 meters high installed for the Swiss Federal Railroads installed in the Zurich train station.
1994 - 1999 Exposition at the Mingei International Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego
1994 - 1999 Retrospective in South America
1994 - 1999 Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
1994 - 1999 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas Sofia Imber, Vénézuéla
1997 Made in France, Centre George Pompidou Paris
1979 - 1996 Principal construction of Il giardino del Tarocchi, to Garavicchio, in the south of Tuscany. It is about a unit of 22 monumental sculptures, some livable, are inspired by the major mysteries of the Tarot. Built out of concrete and are covered with a mosaic of mirrors, glass and ceramics colored
1994 Portraits de Femme, Château Notre Dame des Fleurs Vence, France
1993 Retrospective, Musée d'Art Moderne Paris
1987 - 1993 Retrospect of work Niki de Saint Phalle organised for by Kunst and Ausgestellungshalle of Bonn, Germany and then shown in McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, Scotland, with the Museum of Modern art, Paris, with the Museum of Art and History in Freiburg, Switzerland
1987 - 1993 Permanent Installation in Duisburg, a large sculpture called, Lebenretter
1980 - 1986 Devoted retrospect to Niki de Saint Phalle at the Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris
1980 - 1986 Realised project with Jean Tinguely la Fontaine Stravinsky, , next to the Centre George Pompidou
1980 - 1986 Installation of a monumental sculpture Sun God to the University of Calfornia in San Diego, USA
1980 - 1986 Take an active part in the fight campaigns against the AIDS. In collaboration with Professor Silvio Barandum, she writes and illustrates a book: Aids, You Can' T Wrestling it With Hands, translated into five languages.
1985 Nouveau Realsime and Pop Art, , Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
1980 Retrospective, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris
1977 Paris, New York: Unalbum, Centre George Pompidou Paris
1972 - 1975 In Jerusalem, in the Rabinovitch park, built a monster - house of games for children, LeGolem
1972 - 1975 In Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium, built a house of games for children: Le Dragon
1972 - 1975 The Nanas Conquer the City, permanent installation of of three monumental nanas in the center of the town of Hanover
1971 Serigraphen and Kleine Skulpturen, Kammer Kunsthalle Reine
1966 - 1970 The Paradis Fantastique, an ensemble of nine sculptures of Saint Phalle and Tinguley for the Expo '67 of Montreal.
1966 - 1970 The first creation on an architectural scale in the south of France. Built three houses. Collaborate with Jean Tinguely in the realization of a monumental sculpture in Milly-the-Forest: the Head or the Monster of MiIly.
1966 L'European Artist and the Figure, Art Institute of Chicago Chicago
1965 First exhibition Nanas in New York and Paris
1965 Alexandre Iolas Gallery New York
1964 Mythologies Quotidiennes, , Musée d'Art Moderne Paris
1961 Le Nouveau Réalisme Paris et NY, Galerie Rive Droite Paris
1961 Bewogen-Beweging, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
1956 First exhibition of paintings in St. Gallen (Switerland)
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