The French artist Niki de Saint Phalle created "Tableau tir" (shooting board) in 1961. The work was exhibited the same year in the exhibition "Movement in Art" at the Modern Museum and has since been part of the collections. Niki de Saint Phalle shot several times with a rifle at color bags – and beer cans – that she had covered with plaster on large wooden panels.
Mentally, she directed her shots at society, the church, or men – all of whom had caused her pain – writes the Modern Museum in a press release. She often created her artworks in front of an audience.
This is the second time the Modern Museum receives funding from Bank of America to conserve art by Niki de Saint Phalle. In 2024, the museum received 1.7 million kronor to restore her and Jean Tinguely's sculpture group "Paradise" located outside the museum on Skeppsholmen.
Since 2010, Bank of America has chosen to support approximately 260 conservation projects in forty countries.
