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Johanna Fateman on the art of Niki de Saint Phalle Niki de Saint Phalle, Tarot Garden, 1979–2002, mixed media. Installation view, Garavicchio, Italy, 2017. Photo: Valerio Mei/Alamy. © Niki Charitable Art Foundation. “IF TODAY I CONSIDER MYSELF almost the only poet, the only sculptor capable of creating something poetic, it’s precisely because I’m a woman,” the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle announced to Vogue Paris in 1965. “Men with their rockets, their atomic bomb, and all that filth they’ve dumped on us . . . they’ve sterilized themselves.” It was a pivotal year in her career. She had become something of a sensation with her

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