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Provenance: Dray Collection, Paris.
Dray Collection sale, Christie's Paris, 9 June 2006, lot 30.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Literature: Niki de Saint Phalle: Sculptures, exh. cat., Palm Beach, Hokin Gallery, 1991.
Images de femme, exh. cat., Geneva, Galerie Bonnier, 1996.
Niki de Saint Phalle: Liebe, Protest, Phantasie, exh. cat., Ulm, Ulmer Museum, 1999 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 109).
Niki de Saint Phalle, exh. cat., Knokke, Casino de Knokke, 2002.

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Notes: PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite").If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002)
La fontaine aux quatre nanas
incised with the artist's name and numbered '21/150 Niki de Saint Phalle' (on a metal plaque affixed to the underside) and with the foundry mark 'R. Haligon' (on the underside)
painted polyester resin
20 x 18½ x 5½in. (51 x 47 x 14cm.)
Executed in 1977-78, this work is number twenty-one from an edition of one hundred and fifty plus fifteen artist's proofs