High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Niki de Saint Phalle, born Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle (29 October 1930?21 May 2002) was a French sculptor, painter, and film maker. Niki de Saint Phalle was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, near Paris, to Jeanne Jacqueline (née Harper) and André-Marie Fal de Saint Phalle, a banker. After being wiped out financially during the Great Depression, the family moved from France to the United States in 1933.