400 - Niki de Saint-Phalle, “Cirque Knie” and Nana wallpaper, 2 colour silkscreen prints, one gallery-framed

Niki de Saint-Phalle, “Cirque Knie” and Nana wallpaper, 2 colour silkscreen prints, one gallery-framed Niki de Saint Phalle, 1930 Neuilly-sur-Seine - 2002 San Diego, “Cirque Knie”, colour silkscreen print, 67 x 49 cm, gallery-framed under passepartout and glass, and ‘Nana’ wallpaper, a colour silkscreen print of the Nouveau Réalisme movement, without frame, approx. 58 x 52 cm About the artist: Niki de Saint Phalle became known to a wide public primarily through her ‘Nana’ figures, which she began creating in 1965 and which were exhibited in 1966 and 1968 during the 4th documenta inside and outside the Staatstheater in Kassel, as well as in 1974 in Hanover on the Leibnizufer, where they are now part of the Sculpture Mile. In 1968, Niki de Saint Phalle took part in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for the first time. Further exhibitions followed in 1969 in Munich and Hanover, as well as in Paris in 1970, and in Amsterdam, Stockholm, Rome and New York in 1971. Her donation of works by her husband, Jean Tinguely, following his death, enabled the construction of the Museum Tinguely in Basel.