1988
Edition Size: 275
Sheet Size: 65.7 x 49.5 cm
Signed
Condition: Excellent
This lithograph in colours is hand signed by the artist in pencil “Niki de Saint Phalle” in the lower left margin.
It is also inscribed in pencil “E.A”, in the lower left margin. It is one of a small number of artist’s proofs aside from the edition of 275.
The work is aslo inscribed “for Ted with love from Niki. Nov. 29 1987”, with a heart drawn after the word love, in the lower right margin.
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French artist Niki de Saint Phalle is best known for her large, colorful sculptures of curvaceous women. Her work was often made in collaboration with her husband, Jean Tinguely, who incorporated mechanical, moving elements into her pieces. Niki de Saint Phalle’s love of colour came through in her painting as well as her sculpture, but her most famous piece has to be a series of sculptures for the fountain in Place Igor Stravinsky, Paris. The sculptures, which include a bird, an elephant and a heart, rotate continually and many spurt water. The fountain has the perfect backdrop as it is along one side of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris’s modern art museum.
