PARIS — Niki de Saint Phalle was half French, half American, and bilingual, but who was she? Certainly not merely the sculptor who made those fat girls, the Nanas, though they remain her most famous works.
Eunice Lipton
Eunice Lipton, a memoirist, cultural critic and art historian, lives in Paris and New York. Her best known books are Alias Olympia: A Woman’s Search for Manet’s Notorious Model and Her Own Desire, Looking into Degas: Uneasy Images of Women and Modern Life, and French Seduction: An American’s Encounter with France, Her Father and the Holocaust. She has contributed reviews and essays to many publications including The Guardian, The New York Times, The Nation, The Forward, Art in America, Artforum, Zeek, and The Women’s Review of Books.