Name: In a Bath With You (From Nana Power)
Brand: Niki de Saint Phalle
Price: 2200 USD
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In a Bath With You (From Nana Power)

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About the Item

'In a Bath with You,' 1970 by French-American artist, Niki de Saint Phalle. From her Nana Powers series; 'NANA' being slang for 'chick'. Multi-color lithograph on paper, Ed. 19/115, 26.5 x 19.5 in. Printed in the artist's signature style, this lithograph features whimsical and playful imagery in bold, neon colors of orange, green, pink, yellow, and blue on a black background. Objects conveying romance and love are highlighted such as a telephone that has the word 'Love' for dials, a heart with the words 'I Love You', a woman and a man in a bathtub, and a voluptuous woman dancing on red lips. Niki de Saint Phalle (1930 – 2002) was a self-taught sculptor, painter, and filmmaker. Niki de Saint-Phalle rose to artistic prominence through her colorful monumental outdoor sculptures of extravagantly voluptuous female figures. She was one of the few women artists widely known for monumental sculpture. She first received world-wide attention for angry, violent assemblages which had been shot by firearms. Her first staged public shooting event was in February 1961, attended by Jean Tinguely, Daniel Spoerri, and Pierre Restany, among others. As founder of the Nouveau réalisme (New Realist) movement, Restany asked Saint Phalle to join this group of French artists upon seeing her performance; she was the only female member of this group. The artist associated freely with many other contemporary artists such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, writers, and composers. For several decades, she worked closely with Swiss kinetic artist Jean Tinguely, who became her second husband. Saint Phalle next explored the various roles of women, in what would develop into her best-known and most prolific series of sculptures that she called Nanas, after a French slang word that is roughly equivalent to 'broad' or 'chick'. She started making life-size dolls of women, such as brides and mothers giving birth, monsters, and large heads. Initially, they were made of soft materials, such as wool, cloth, and papier-mâché, but they soon evolved into plaster over a wire framework and plastic toys, some painted all white. In her later years, she suffered from multiple chronic health problems attributed to repeated exposure to glass fibers and petrochemical fumes from the experimental materials she had used in her pioneering artworks, but she continued to create prolifically until the end of her life. Niki de Saint Phalle died May 21, 2002 in La Jolla, CA at the age of 71.

Creator:
Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002, French, American)
Creation Year:
1970
Dimensions:
Height: 26.5 in (67.31 cm)Width: 19.5 in (49.53 cm)
Medium:
Lithograph
Period:
1970-1979
Condition:
Ed. 19/115 | 33.5 x 25.5 in. (Framed) | Signed lower right side.
Gallery Location:
White Plains, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU37332104883