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shooting paintings with a rifle, sculpting exuberant Nanas, and spending twenty years building a Tarot Garden in Tuscany to heal from childhood abuse

Where to see Niki de Saint Phalle
Ranked by works you can see in person.
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10 works
Sprengel Museum
Sammlungszentrum Hannover, Germany
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4 worksNational Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C., United States
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2 works
Musée National d'Art Moderne
Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
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1 works
Moderna Museet
Skeppsholmen, Sweden
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1 works
musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain de Nice
Nice, France
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1 works
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, United States
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1 works
Museum Ludwig
Gebäudekomplex der Kölner Philharmonie und des Museum Ludwig, Germany
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1 works
Princeton Art Museum
Princeton, United States
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1 works
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen - Robbrecht & Daem wing, Netherlands
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1 worksMetropolitan Museum of Art
New York City, United States
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1 works
Mingei International Museum
San Diego, United States
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1 works
Museum of Art and History
Fribourg, Switzerland
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1 works
Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Strasbourg, France
Frequently Asked Questions
Where are Niki de Saint Phalle sculptures?
Some of Niki de Saint Phalle's sculptures are located in Buffalo, New York.Where is Niki de Saint Phalle tarot garden?
Niki de Saint Phalle's Tarot Garden is in Garavicchio, Tuscany.Where is Niki de Saint Phalle from?
Niki de Saint Phalle was United States, born in 1930 and died in 2002.Niki de Saint Phalle most famous work?
Niki de Saint Phalle's best-known sculptures are the Nanas, exuberant, rotund female figures in bright colours.Niki de Saint Phalle artwork?
Niki de Saint Phalle's artwork includes assemblage and three-dimensional polyester female forms.Who is Niki de Saint Phalle?
Niki de Saint Phalle was a female artist born in the United States in 1930.Niki de Saint Phalle facts?
Niki de Saint Phalle disclosed in her 1994 autobiography that her father sexually abused her from the age of eleven.Niki de Saint Phalle shooting paintings?
Niki de Saint Phalle created 'shooting paintings' called Tirs by firing a .22 rifle at plaster assemblages embedded with bags of paint.
Sources
Where to See guide aggregates verified holdings of Niki de Saint Phalle's works across the following collections.
- [1] museum Sprengel Museum Used for: museum holdings.
- [2] museum Princeton Art Museum Used for: museum holdings.
- [3] museum National Gallery of Art Used for: museum holdings.
- [4] museum Metropolitan Museum of Art Used for: museum holdings.
- [5] museum Musée National d'Art Moderne Used for: museum holdings.
- [6] museum Mingei International Museum Used for: museum holdings.
- [7] book Laurie Adams, 9780077551957.pdf Used for: stylistic analysis.
- [8] book Staff, Craig, After Modernist Painting_ The History of a Contemporary Practice (International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art Book 3) Used for: biography, stylistic analysis.
- [9] book Staff, Craig, After Modernist Painting_ The History of a Contemporary Practice (International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art Book 3)_1 Used for: biography, stylistic analysis.
- [10] book Bock Weiss, Catherine C.(Author), Artist Resource Manuals : Henri Matisse : A Guide to Research Used for: biography.
- [11] book Fred S. Kleiner;, Gardner's Art Through the Ages Used for: museum holdings.
- [12] book guggenheim-comett00giac Used for: museum holdings.
- [13] book guggenheim-invested00blis Used for: biography.
- [14] book guggenheim-jeandubuffetretr00dubu Used for: museum holdings.
- [15] book guggenheim-jeandubuffetretr00newy Used for: biography.
- [16] book guggenheim-mariomerz00cela Used for: biography.
- [17] book guggenheim-museum00solo Used for: stylistic analysis.
- [18] book guggenheim-pifiron00gimn Used for: museum holdings.
- [19] book guggenheim-transfsi00wald Used for: biography.
- [20] book Bock-Weiss, Catherine; Matisse, Henri, Henri Matisse_ A Guide to Research (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) Used for: biography.
- [21] book Braun, Emily, 1957-; Asor Rosa, Alberto; Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), Italian art in the 20th century : painting and sculpture, 1900-1988 Used for: biography.
- [22] book Penelope J.E. Davies, Walter B. Denny, Frima Fox Hofrichter, Joseph Jacobs, Ann S. Roberts, David L. Simon, Janson's History of Art_ The Western Tradition (8th Edition) Used for: museum holdings.
- [23] book Hodge, Susie, 1960- author, The short story of women artists : a pocket guide to movements, works, breakthroughs, & themes Used for: biography, stylistic analysis.
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