Heather,
It sounds like a Niki de Saint Phalle figure to me. She was married to Jean Tinguely, who was Swiss (he died some years ago). She is french.
We had some figures (fat, colorful women and some kind of animals) in our store. They looked liked Niki de Saint-Phalle figures, but
were much smaller (about a foot high)and were not by her, therefore of course much more reasonable. I just called the store, we don't have them any more, but here is the address where we got them from:
Moms
1903 Walnut Street
P.O.Box 180
Philadelphia, PA 19103
I hope this helps.
Happy Holidays
Ursula Kolmstetter
Ursula Kolmstetter
Head Librarian, Stout Reference Library
Indianapolis Museum of Art
1200 West 38th Street
Indianapolis, IN 46208
USA
Tel.: 317-920-2662, ext. 225
Fax: 317-926-8931
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>>> Heather Brodhead <[log in to unmask]> 12/21/00 04:47PM >>>
Can any of you well-travelled folks help on this? One of our customers
said his girl friend LOVES a sculpture she saw this past spring in the
Zurich train station. It's (to use his words)"sort of papier mache,
colorful, fat figure on thin legs". Could it be something by Niki de
Saint-Phalle? In addition to checking a couple of books on her (not
indexed :-(), we checked travel guides for Zurich, hoping someone would
mention it. No luck. Apparently replicas are available, and our chap
wants to see if he can buy one. (Strangely enough, he said the replicas
are available in different colors, and a store here in Pittsburgh sold
them but no longer has any. The store manager will order one for him if
he can identify it.) Any help is appreciated!
-Heather
Heather Brodhead, Librarian
Music & Art Department
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Tel 412\622-3105 Fax 412\622-3412
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