Nikki de saint phalle artistic painting and her art work based on natural elements.

Niki was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, after being wiped out financially during the Great Depression, the family moved from France to the United States in 1933. Niki enrolled at the prestigious Brearley School in New York City, but she was dismissed for painting fig leaves red on the school's statuary. She went on to attend Oldfields School in Glencoe, Maryland where she graduated in 1947. He encouraged her to continue painting in her self-taught style.which persuaded her to create one day her own garden-based art work that would combine both artistic and natural elements.

Nikki de saint phalli First art exhibition and naïve style of oil painting.

Saint Phalle continued to paint, particularly after she and her family moved to Paris in the mid-1950s. Her first art exhibition was held in 1956 in Switzerland, where she displayed her naïve style of oil painting. She then took up collage work that often featured images of the instruments of violence, such as guns and knives.the wife of American artist Larry Rivers; she began to use her painting to consider archetypal female figures in relation to her thinking on the position of women in society. Her artistic expression of the proverbial everywoman was named 'Nanas'.

Painted metal
64 9/16 x 27 9/16 in (165 x 71 cm)