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Deborah Ripley
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Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002)
Offset lithograph in colors on wove paper, signed in ink and numbered 194/300, the full sheet.
sheet 19 5/8 x 17 1/4in (49.8 x 43.7cm)
Footnotes
Before the term "feminist artist" was in vogue, sculptor and painter Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) was challenging gender roles in her artwork. In her "Shooting Pictures" series from the 1960s, she filled polythene bags with paint, enclosing them in plaster and shot at them, co-opting the traditionally masculine role as a violent provocateur.
For Saint Phalle, her "Nana" sculptures were, in her view, "forerunners of a new matriarchal epoch." Her prints employed many of the subjects that she used to create her personal mythology: dragons, snakes and animals, all imbued with a joyful energy that emphasized her utopian vision of women's ability to transform the world.
