Niki de Saint Phalle

Niki de Saint Phalle, née Catherine Marie-Agnes Fal de Saint Phalle (October 29 1930 - May 21, 2002) was a French sculptor, painter, and film maker.

Her life with Jean Tinguely

In 1955 de Saint Phalle met Jean Tinguely and his wife, Eva Aeppli. She asked Tinguely to weld the armature for her first sculpture.

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1955 - Jean Tinguely

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In 1960, de Saint Phalle divorced her husband, the writer Harry Mathews, who had long been having romances with other men. That same year, Jean Tinguely and Eva Aeppli also divorced. De Saint Phalle and Tinguely subsequently moved into the Impasse Ronsin where they shared the same studio and lived surrounded by other artists, including Constantin Brancusi. It was in this period that Marcel Duchamp introduced the pair to the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali. De Saint Phalle later traveled to Spain with Tinguely in order to attend a celebration honoring Dali; while there, the pair created a life-sized exploding bull with plaster, paper and fireworks for the arena at Figueras. In 1963, they bought an old country inn outside of Paris to serve as both their home and studio, l'Auberge du Cheval Blanc in Soisy-sur-Ecole, some 50 kilometers south of Paris. She married Jean Tinguely on 13 July 1971 acquiring Swiss citizenship.

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1960 - Harry Mathews - Constantin Brancusi - Marcel Duchamp - Salvador Dali - 1963 - Soisy-sur-Ecole - Jean Tinguely - 13 July - 1971 - Swiss - Citizenship

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