Google’s latest doodle celebrates the birthday of Niki de Saint Phalle, the artist and sculptor who rose to prominence in the 1960s by developing a trademark style of “shooting” paintings in which colour was shot on to canvasses.
Born in 1930 in the commune of Neuilly-sur-Seine in the western suburbs of Paris, her parents took her to her mother’s home city of New York in 1937, where she later worked as a fashion model, for Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle among others.
She eloped in 1949 with Harry Matthews, a music student, and two years later moved with him to Paris, where she started to develop an interest in painting.
A relative late starter in that role, she had her first solo exhibition of paintings in Switzerland in 1956 but she turned out to be a prolific producer of work which led some to categorise her as a pop artist.
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