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08/19/2026

08/10/2026

Giorgio Morandi - Matura Morta (Still Life), 1945. Oil on canvas, 30 x 35 cm. @ Sotheby's, Milan

08/10/2026

“When you wake up asking ‘What’s wrong?’ you’ll find plenty that’s wrong. But, when you wake up asking ‘What’s possible?’ you’ll discover opportunities you never noticed before.”
Christine Caine

Lauritis Tuxen - Morning Atmosphere: From My House in Skagen, 1916.

08/10/2026

Niki de Saint Phalle (French sculptor, painter and filmmaker) 1930 - 2002
Baigneurs ou Danseuse (Bathers or Dancers), 1980-81
painted polyester resin
47 x 47 x 30.5 cm. (18.5 x 18.5 in.)
stamped with the artist's name and numbered 'Niki 24/150' (on the underside)
Executed in 1980-1981. This work is number 24 from an edition of 150 plus 20 artist's proofs.
private collection
© photo Christie's

Niki de Saint Phalle (born Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle) had a difficult and traumatic childhood and education, which she wrote about decades later. After an early marriage and two children, she began creating art in a naïve, experimental style. She first received worldwide attention for angry, violent assemblages which had been shot by fi****ms. These evolved into Nanas, light-hearted, whimsical, colorful, large-scale sculptures of animals, monsters, and female figures. Her most comprehensive work was the Tarot Garden, a large sculpture garden containing numerous works ranging up to house-sized creations. Her idiosyncratic style has been called "outsider art"; she had no formal training in art, but associated freely with many other contemporary artists, writers, and composers.

Throughout her creative career, she collaborated with other well-known artists such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, composer John Cage, and architect Mario Botta, as well as dozens of less-known artists and craftspersons. For several decades, she worked especially closely with Swiss kinetic artist Jean Tinguely, who also became her second husband. In her later years, she suffered from multiple chronic health problems attributed to repeated exposure to glass fibers and petrochemical fumes from the experimental materials she had used in her pioneering artworks, but she continued to create prolifically until the end of her life.

A critic has observed that Saint Phalle's "insistence on exuberance, emotion and sensuality, her pursuit of the figurative and her bold use of color have not endeared her to everyone in a minimalist age". She was well known in Europe, but her work was little-seen in the US, until her final years in San Diego. Another critic said: "The French-born, American-raised artist is one of the most significant female and feminist artists of the 20th century, and one of the few to receive recognition in the male-dominated art world during her lifetime".

Source: Wikipedia

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“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.”
Emily Dickinson

Alexander Kingspor - Lantern, b.1977.