Artist Monograph

Niki de Saint Phalle, French

French and American, 1930–2002

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Drawing	4	36.4%
Lithography	3	27.3%
Other Media	2	18.2%
Sculpture	1	9.1%
Screenprint	1	9.1%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	10	90.9%
Painting & Sculpture	1	9.1%

Classification Types

Drawing — 6
Illustrated Book — 2
Print — 2
Sculpture — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	2	18.2%
Medium (30–100 cm)	8	72.7%
Large (1–3 m)	1	9.1%

Range: 21.0 cm → 244.8 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1967	2
1968	2
1987	1
1989	1
2011	1
2018	2

Currently On View

"MoMA, Floor 4, 408" — 1

French Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 11 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Shooting Painting American Embassy Sculpture Acc. 860.2011	1961	Paint, plaster, wood, plastic bags, shoe, twine, metal seat, axe, metal can, toy gun, wire mesh, shot pellets, and other objects on wood	96 3/8 x 25 7/8 x 8 5/8" (244.8 x 65.7 x 21.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of the Niki Charitable Art Foundation
In-text plate (folios 39 verso and 40 recto) from In Memory of My Feelings Illustrated Book Acc. 92.1968.16	1967	One from an illustrated book with forty-six lithographs	composition (irreg.): 11 1/4 x 12" (28.5 x 30.5cm); page (two-page spread): 11 15/16 x 17 15/16" (30.4 x 45.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Publications
In-text plate (folios 41 verso and 42 recto) from In Memory of My Feelings Illustrated Book Acc. 92.1968.17	1967	One from an illustrated book with forty-six lithographs	composition (irreg.): 9 9/16 x 14 5/8" (24.3 x 37.2cm); page (two-page spread): 11 15/16 x 17 15/16" (30.4 x 45.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Publications
Preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings Drawing Acc. 2202.1967.93	1967	Pencil and ink on acetate	sheet: 14 x 11" (35.5 x 28 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings Drawing Acc. 2202.1967.92	1967	Pencil and ink on acetate	sheet: 13 15/16 x 11" (35.4 x 28 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings Drawing Acc. 2202.1967.94	1967	Pencil and ink on acetate	14 x 11" (35.6 x 28 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings Drawing Acc. 2202.1967.91	1967	Pencil and ink on acetate	sheet: 13 7/8 x 11" (35.3 x 27.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist
Plan for Construction of Nana Maison (Projet pour construction de Nana maison) Drawing Acc. 1574.2018	1969	Felt-tip pen on graph paper	5 3/8 × 8 1/4" (13.7 × 21 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Instruction Drawing Collection, Detroit
Plan for Construction of Nana Maison (Projet pour construction de Nana maison) Drawing Acc. 1575.2018	1969	Felt-tip pen on graph paper	5 1/4 × 8 1/4" (13.3 × 21 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Gilbert B. and Lila Silverman Instruction Drawing Collection, Detroit
Salut Picasso from Homage to Picasso (Hommage à Picasso) Print Acc. 22.1987.19	1973	Screenprint from a portfolio of thirty-one lithographs (one with aquatint, one with collotype, one with screenprint), twenty-two screenprints (one with embossing, one with flocking, one with stencil), eleven etchings (five with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint, one with aquatint, drypoint, and engraving), three aquatints (one with etching), and two woodcuts	composition (irreg.): 19 5/8 x 25 7/16" (49.8 x 64.6cm); sheet: 21 5/8 x 29 7/8" (55 x 75.9cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dorothy Miller (by exchange)
Untitled from The New Realists (Les Nouveaux réalistes) Print Acc. 291.1989.10	1973	Photolithograph	composition and sheet: 19 11/16 × 17 5/16" (50 × 44 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Walter Thayer Bequest