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Franco-American artist internationally known for her colorful, monumental, cartoonlike sculptures and environments.

She created "Nanas", bulbous, maternal figures painted in bold colors and decorated with crisp, cartoon outlines.

She is known for what she called "target paintings," at which darts were thrown, and then for actual "shooting paintings" and sculptures.

Mother of Laura Duke Condominas.

When director Robert Bresson was considering a film about the legend of King Arthur in the 1950s, he saw Niki De Saint Phalle and immediately wanted her to play Queen Guinevere. The project fell through, but was revived more than 20 years later. While casting this later film, Lancelot of the Lake (1974), he discovered a young actress who perfectly matched his idea of what Guinevere should look like. It turned out to be Niki's daughter, Laura Duke Condominas.