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Niki de Saint Phalle
Catherine de Saint Phalle, said Niki de Saint Phalle, was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1930. From 1933 till 1951, she lived in New York. She was at first an actress and got artistic education. Niki de Saint Phalle began however to paint in 1952 in self-taught. In 1960, she is a member of the New Realists-group and became the partner of Jean Tinguely. In the moddle of the 60s, she began the series of the "Nanas", the colorful and baroque caricatures of the feminine condition which she ceaselessly modeled. She created all different sizes of her "Nanas", until gigantic models sometimes. She died in 2002 to San Diego, California. |
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