NIKI DE SAINT-PHALLE | SHAMU - YOU ARE MY KILLER WHALE (REMEMBERING)
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December 6, 07:24 PM GMT
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25,000 - 35,000 USD
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NIKI DE SAINT-PHALLE
1930 - 2002
SHAMU - YOU ARE MY KILLER WHALE (REMEMBERING)
fiberglass and painted polyester
31 by 50 by 5¾ in. (78.7 by 127 by 14.6 cm.)
Executed in 1998, this work is number 4 from an edition of 5, each one unique.
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, issued by Tasende Gallery and signed by Niki de Saint Phalle.
Tasende Gallery, La Jolla
Acquired from the above by the present owner
San Diego, Mingei International Museum, Niki de Saint Pahlle, Insider-Outsider - World Inspired Art, 1998, illustrated in color (exhibition catalogue), p. 118
La Jolla, Tasende Gallery, Niki de Saint Phalle, 2001
Sylvio Acatos, Niki de Saint Phalle: Catalogue Raisonné: 1949-2000, Volume I, Lausanne 2001, no. 667, p. 304, illustrated in color
“Although she was raised under various influences and shaped by many circumstances, Niki is above all herself, namely a surprising and explosive mixture - the product of various forces which were never so much inheirited as refashiones; the product also of various tensions which never so much ruled her as fed her creativity. To paraphrase the Maréchal of France who was snubbed by the Restoration nobles, Niki ‘has no ancestor, she IS an ancestor’, in the sense that she inheirited from no one her ability to make herself, but will leave a fabulous inheiritance to others.”
(Michael of Greece, “To Create, To Give”, Niki de Saint Phalle: Monograph, Lausanne 2001, p. 465)