When Niki de Saint Phalle Paid Homage to Jean Tinguely at the Vallois Gallery

Published on 29 September 2023, by Virginie Chuimer-Layen

"Jean, I’m going to eat you. To take your strength. […] Through my new works […] you are still here, even though these paintings do not look like you."

Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002), Ganesh, 1994, 126 x 106 x 32 cm/49.60 x 41.73 x... When Niki de Saint Phalle Paid Homage to Jean Tinguely at the Vallois Gallery

Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002), Ganesh, 1994, 126 x 106 x 32 cm/49.60 x 41.73 x 12.59 in.
Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein - Courtesy Niki Charitable Art Foundation and Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris

"Jean, I’m going to eat you. To take your strength. […] Through my new works […] you are still here, even though these paintings do not look like you." In 1993, Niki de Saint Phalle wrote these words to her husband Jean Tinguely, who had died two years earlier, to present a new series called "Tableaux éclatés" (“Shattered Paintings”)…

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