Niki de Saint Phalle was born Catherine Marie-Agnes Fal de Saint Phalle
at Neuilly-sur-Seine, and was the second of five children of Jeanne
Jacqueline, nee Harper and Andre Marie de Saint Phalle, a banker.
In
the early 1930s, her father lost all the family money in the stock
market crash of 1929, and Niki and her elder brother were separated
from their parents and sent to live with paternal grandparents in the
Nievre area of France for the next three years.
In 1933, the
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