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NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE (1930-2002) LES BAIGNEUSES signed and numbered "Niki de Saint Phalle" on the...

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NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE (1930-2002) LES BAIGNEUSES signed and numbered Niki de Saint Phalle on the...
NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE
(1930-2002)
LES BAIGNEUSES
signed and numbered "Niki de Saint Phalle" on the base
polychromed polyester
and fiberglass
107 7/8 x 11 17/8 x 119 5/8 in.
(274 x 284 x 303.8 cm)
executed in 1984
this work is from an edition of two <p>PROVENANCE
Gimpel Fils Gallery, LONDON
Private collection, NEW YORK <p>EXHIBITED
LONDON, Gimpel Fils Gallery, NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE, 1984
"I love roundness... the curves, the undulation; I do not like right-angles, they scare me. The right-angle is a killer. I love imperfection. Perfection is cold. Imperfection gives life. I love life" (Niki de Saint-Phalle quoted in exh. Cat., NIKI DE SAINT-PHALLE, PARIS, 1980, p. 48). Niki de Saint Phalle, best known for her oversized figures, has explored the dreaming unconscious of a magical transcultural past. Informed by a broad array of historical and religious sources, as well as artists ranging form Old Masters such as Giotto and Bosch, to contemporaries such as Klee and Calder, the theme of de Saint Phalle's Les Baigneuses in particular harks to the paintings of Cézanne. De Saint Phalle's mysterious and monumental pieces work on many different levels, such as good and evil, modern and primitive, sacred and profane, play and terror. Her exaggerated "earth mother" sculptures, the Nanas, playfully explore the ancient tradition of feminine deities while celebrating modern feminism's efforts to reconsider and revalue the woman's body.
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