'La baigneuse ou Nana de Berlin'
Niki de Saint Phalle (Neuilly-sur-Seine 1930 - San Diego 2002)
Lot-No. 622
Proceeds : 10.700 €
Domolith-Kunstwerkstätten Kevelaer. 1973. Polyester, colourfully painted in brown, white, red and green. 26 x 34 x 28 cm. Laterally with the signature stamp 'Niki de Saint Phalle', on the underside incised numbered copy 92 from an edition of 500, Edition Zeit-Magazin Hamburg and Propyläen Refaktur, Berlin (with red wax seal). Partly very few signs of age. - Expertise: With certificate of the Propyläen Refactur - French-swiss paintress, graphic artist a. sculptor, world famous by her colourful a. opulent female figures, the so called Nanas. S. P. was born near Paris, raised in New York, travelled widely a. worked among others in Switzerland, France, Israel, Italy a. California. In 1955 she met the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely who inspired her to her so called 'shooting paintings’. Since 1962 she began to reflect on the role of women a. created her first Nana figures, initially from wire a. fabric a. exhibited them in Paris in 1964. In 1966 she realized her first large scale project in the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Later the Nanas, made in a great variety of size a. shape, became symbols of female self-confidence a. strength.
Niki de Saint Phalle: 'La baigneuse ou Nana de Berlin'
Niki de Saint Phalle (Neuilly-sur-Seine 1930 - San Diego 2002)
'La baigneuse ou Nana de Berlin'
Lot-No. 622
Proceeds : 10.700 €
Domolith-Kunstwerkstätten Kevelaer. 1973. Polyester, colourfully painted in brown, white, red and green. 26 x 34 x 28 cm. Laterally with the signature stamp 'Niki de Saint Phalle', on the underside incised numbered copy 92 from an edition of 500, Edition Zeit-Magazin Hamburg and Propyläen Refaktur, Berlin (with red wax seal). Partly very few signs of age. - Expertise: With certificate of the Propyläen Refactur - French-swiss paintress, graphic artist a. sculptor, world famous by her colourful a. opulent female figures, the so called Nanas. S. P. was born near Paris, raised in New York, travelled widely a. worked among others in Switzerland, France, Israel, Italy a. California. In 1955 she met the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely who inspired her to her so called 'shooting paintings’. Since 1962 she began to reflect on the role of women a. created her first Nana figures, initially from wire a. fabric a. exhibited them in Paris in 1964. In 1966 she realized her first large scale project in the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Later the Nanas, made in a great variety of size a. shape, became symbols of female self-confidence a. strength.
