Niki de Saint Phalle

The St Louis Botanical Garden currently has a fantastic exhibit of sculptures by Niki de Saint Phalle. I took lots of pictures, but am posting just a few here, after a couple of postcards from my collection to contrast with the "nanas", which she called "heralds of a new matriarchal age".
The first postcard is a TWA advertisement called "Valley of the Sun", postage one cent. The second was sent by Aunt Bernadine (name on green suited lady) and Aunt Sadie (red polk-a-dot suit) in 1953, with the message "Two more days & we'll look like those two dolllies", postage two cents.


These nanas (translate as "chicks" or "babes", says the visitor guide) are in the water in front of the Linnaean House.

This lion looked like fun. You were allowed to climb on some of the sculptures.

And you could sit on some of them.

Some were really weird. There were 40 sculptures on display. I took pictures of most of them, and have posted them all on Snapfish.