The first UK exhibition of the French artist Niki de Saint Phalle. Beautiful, flamboyant, daring, provocative and fiercely independent, she emerged in the 1960s as a powerful and original figure in the highly masculine international arts world. The exhibition will include her acclaimed Shooting Pictures 1961 and larger sculptural works.
TateShots: Niki de Saint Phalle
1 February – 5 May 2008
The Henry Moore Foundation
The French Institute
The French-born artist who died in 2002 is perhaps best known for her large, brightly coloured sculptures of female figures, as well as her Shooting Paintings – done in the early 1960s with the help of Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and her second husband Jean Tinguely. However, her formative years were spent with her first husband, the writer Harry Mathews, between 1950 and 1960. He talks about this time to Tate Etc.
