Lot Essay
This work is one of the first models for the large Sphinx/L'imperatrice created by Niki de Saint Phalle at her Tarot Garden in Capalbio, Tuscany.
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Sphinx
Details
Niki de Saint-Phalle (1930-2002)
Sphinx
painted polyester
11 7/8 x 11 x 16½in. (30 x 28 x 48cm.)
Executed in 1975
Sphinx
painted polyester
11 7/8 x 11 x 16½in. (30 x 28 x 48cm.)
Executed in 1975
Literature
Life is Art Magazine, Japan, April 1980 (illustrated in colour, p. 89).
Exhibited
Tokyo, Galerie Watari, Niki de Saint Phalle, 1979 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
Special notice
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