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Niki de Saint Phalle

The Sketchbooks
Series: The Sketchbooks
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A richly illustrated collection of previously unpublished drawings by the famed modern artist The French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle is best known for her Nanas, joyful and brightly coloured monumental sculptures of goddess-like female figures. But her work, which was grounded in her visionary beliefs... Read More
Format: Hardback
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A richly illustrated collection of previously unpublished drawings by the famed modern artist

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A richly illustrated collection of previously unpublished drawings by the famed modern artist

The French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle is best known for her Nanas, joyful and brightly coloured monumental sculptures of goddess-like female figures. But her work, which was grounded in her visionary beliefs about social experiments and personal freedom, ranged much more widely—from painting, film, architecture, and books to theatre sets, clothing, and jewellery.

Niki de Saint Phalle: The Sketchbooks presents a beautiful collection of previously unpublished drawings, notes, and other preparatory work from Saint Phalle's private sketchbooks. Culled from a vast archive of never-before-seen materials, these drawings shed new light on Saint Phalle's fascinating artistic evolution, style, and interior life.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780691272429

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 December 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Princeton University Press

Illustration: 160 color illus.

Contributors:

  • Contributions by Kyla McDonald
  • Edited by Larry Warsh
  • Edited by Larry Warsh

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 192

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Series: The Sketchbooks

About the Author

Niki de Saint Phalle (19302002) was a French-American artist and prominent member of the Nouveau Realisme movement. In addition to her extensive global installations of public artwork, her work has been featured in many solo exhibitions and museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern, and Centre Pompidou.

Larry Warsh has been active in the art world for more than thirty years as a publisher and artist-collaborator, and was a founding member of the Basquiat Authentication Committee. He is the editor of the ISMs series, including Holzer-isms and Abramovi-isms, as well as Basquiat's The Notebooks and James Rosenquist: Collages, Drawings, and Paintings in Process (all Princeton), among many other books.

Kyla McDonald is an art historian and curator.

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