Number 23 Basketball Player

Sculpture in Washington, D.C., United States

Number 23 Basketball Player

Artist| Niki de Saint Phalle
Year| 1999 (1999)
Type| fiberglass & mosaic
Location| National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., United States
Coordinates| 38°54′02″N 77°01′42″W﻿ / ﻿38.90065°N 77.028333°W﻿ / 38.90065; -77.028333
Owner| Niki Charitable Art Foundation

Number 23 Basketball Player is a sculpture by Niki de Saint Phalle.

It is from the Black Heroes Series. It is part of the National Museum of Women in the Arts,  New York Avenue Sculpture Project.[1]

## Reviews

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* Jacqueline Trescott (2010). "National Museum of Women in the Arts to turn D.C. corridor into sculpture alley". Style. The Washington Post. Retrieved 8 Feb 2011.
* Blake Gopnik (2010). "Sculptures add color to New York Avenue, but are they art?". Style. The Washington Post. Retrieved 8 Feb 2011.

## See also

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* List of public art in Washington, D.C., Ward 2

## References

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1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-19. Retrieved 2011-02-08.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

## External links

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* NMWAs New York Avenue Sculpture Project Website
* Amherst College Digital Collection
* https://www.flickr.com/photos/mpcevat/2363890072/

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Niki de Saint Phalle

Sculptures|

* Arbre Serpents (1999)
* Big Ganesh (1998)
* Coming Together (2001)
* Fontaine de Château-Chinon (1988)
* Grand Oiseau de Feu sur l’arche (1991)
* Hannover Nanas
* Golem (1971)
* La Lune (1987)
* La Tempérance (1992)
* L'Ange Protecteur (1997)
* Le Grand Oiseau Amoureux (1988–1989)
* Le Monstre du Loch Ness (1992)
* Les Trois Grâces (1999)
* Miles Davis (1999)
* Nana on a Dolphin (1998)
* Nikigator (2001)
* Oiseau Amoureux (1993)
* Oiseau Amoureux Fontaine (1989–1993)
* Ricardo Cat (1999)
* Stravinsky Fountain (1983)
* Sun God (1983)
* Tympanum (1996)
* Le poète et sa muse (1998)

Sculpture gardens|

* Tarot Garden (1974–1998)
* Queen Califia's Magical Circle (2000–2002)
* Noah's Ark (1994–2001)
* Le Paradis Fantastique (1967)
* Grotto (2001–2003)
* Le Cyclop (1969–1994)

Major exhibitions|

* 1998 Mingei International Museum, San Diego
* 2000 Sprengel Museum, Hanover
* 2002 MAMAC, Nice
* 2014 Grand Palais, Paris
* 2016 Arken Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
* 2021 MoMA PS1, New York
* 2021–2022 Menil Collection and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
* 2024 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Related|

* Museum Tinguely
* Harry Mathews (first husband)
* Jean Tinguely (second husband)
* Laura Duke Condominas (daughter)

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Public art in Washington, D.C.

Portrait sculpture|

* Dante Alighieri
* Francis Asbury
* Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
* Sheridan Circle
* Turkish Embassy
* Mary McLeod Bethune
* William Blackstone
* James Buchanan
* John Carroll
* Winston Churchill
* Louis Daguerre
* Albert Einstein
* Robert Emmet
* John Ericsson
* Albert Gallatin
* Mahatma Gandhi
* James A. Garfield
* James Gibbons
* Kahlil Gibran
* Josh Gibson
* Samuel Gompers
* Théodore Guérin
* Samuel Hahnemann
* Alexander Hamilton
* Joseph Henry
* Isabella I of Castile
* Andrew Jackson
* Thomas Jefferson
* Joan of Arc
* Walter Johnson
* Jan Karski
* Martin Luther King Jr.
* Vasil Levski
* Abraham Lincoln
* D.C. City Hall
* Emancipation Memorial
* Lincoln Memorial
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
* Martin Luther
* Nelson Mandela
* Guglielmo Marconi
* John Marshall
* Crown Princess Märtha of Norway
* Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
* George Mason
* Peter Muhlenberg
* Bernardo O'Higgins
* John J. Pershing
* Martin de Porres
* Alexander Pushkin
* Franklin D. Roosevelt
* Theodore Roosevelt
* Alberto Santos-Dumont
* Olive Risley Seward
* Alexander Robey Shepherd
* Taras Shevchenko
* Soh Jaipil
* Robert A. Taft
* Eleftherios Venizelos
* George Washington
* GWU busts
* GWU statue
* National Cathedral
* U.S. Capitol east lawn†
* Daniel Webster

| American
Revolution Statuary|

* John Barry
* Edmund Burke
* Benjamin Franklin
* Nathanael Greene
* Nathan Hale
* John Paul Jones
* Tadeusz Kościuszko
* Marquis de Lafayette
* Casimir Pulaski
* Comte de Rochambeau
* Baron von Steuben
* Artemas Ward
* George Washington (Washington Circle)
* John Witherspoon

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Civil War
Monuments|

* David Farragut
* Ulysses S. Grant
* Winfield Scott Hancock
* John A. Logan
* George B. McClellan
* James B. McPherson
* George Gordon Meade
* Albert Pike†
* John Aaron Rawlins
* Winfield Scott
* Philip Sheridan
* William Tecumseh Sherman
* Benjamin F. Stephenson
* George Henry Thomas

Statues of
the Liberators|

* José Gervasio Artigas
* Simón Bolívar
* Bernardo de Gálvez
* Benito Juárez
* José de San Martín

Other monuments|

* Armenian Earthquake
* Ashes to Answers
* Boy Scouts
* Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
* Cuban–American Friendship
* Andrew Jackson Downing
* Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution
* Holodomor Genocide
* Lyndon B. Johnson
* Law Enforcement Officers
* Signers of the Declaration of Independence
* Titanic
* Victims of Communism
* Washington Monument

| War memorials|

* American Veterans Disabled for Life
* District of Columbia (WWI)
* First Division (WWI–)
* Grand Army of the Republic (Civil War)
* Korean War
* Navy – Merchant Marine (WWI–)
* Nuns of the Battlefield (Civil War)
* Peace Monument (Civil War)
* Second Division (WWI–)
* U.S. Navy
* The Homecoming
* The Lone Sailor
* Vietnam War
* Three Soldiers
* Women
* World War II
* Japanese-American Patriotism

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Other works|

* Ad Astra
* Allow Me
* Always Becoming
* Arbre Serpents
* The Arts of War and The Arts of Peace
* Ascension
* Australian Seal
* Bearing Witness
* Bex Eagle
* Boy from Pest
* A Bridge Across and Beyond
* Bridge Tender's House
* Buffalo
* Build-Grow
* Carry the Rainbow on Your Shoulders
* Cascading Waterfall
* Chair
* The Chess Players
* Composition for the Axemen
* Continuum
* Delta Solar
* Discovery of America†
* Discus Thrower
* Don Quixote
* The Extra Mile
* Family Circle
* Federal Triangle Flowers
* Fortitude
* Freedom Bell
* Friendship Archway
* Gwenfritz
* (Here I Stand) In the Spirit of Paul Robeson
* Homeless Jesus
* Infinity
* Japanese Lantern
* Japanese Pagoda
* Lift Off
* Loss and Regeneration
* El Maíz
* The Mama Ayesha's Restaurant Presidential Mural
* Mary, Protector of Faith
* Nana on a Dolphin
* Number 23 Basketball Player
* New Leaf
* The Parable
* Pillar of Fire
* The Rescue†
* Renaissance
* River Horse
* St. Jerome the Priest
* Saraswati
* Serenity
* The Servant Christ
* She Who Must Be Obeyed
* Sky Landscape
* Spirit of Haida Gwaii
* Symbiosis
* Trigadilly
* Les Trois Grâces
* Two Men Reading
* Uncle Beazley

| Architectural
sculpture|

* Acacia Griffins
* American Legion Soldier
* Apotheosis of Democracy
* Canova Lions
* Columbus Doors
* Darth Vader grotesque
* Freedom
* Government Printing Office Workers
* Guardianship and Heritage
* Inspiration
* Man Controlling Trade
* Progress of Civilization Pediment
* Revolutionary War Door
* George Washington and the Revolutionary War Door
* Past and Present
* The Progress of Railroading
* Students Aspire

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Fountains|

* Bartholdi Fountain
* Butt–Millet Memorial Fountain
* Columbus Fountain
* Court of Neptune Fountain
* Darlington Memorial Fountain
* Dupont Circle Fountain
* McMillan Fountain
* Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain
* Oscar Straus Memorial
* Temperance Fountain

By location|

* Ward 1
* Ward 2
* Ward 3
* Ward 4
* Ward 5
* Ward 6
* Ward 7
* Ward 8

Related|

* Graffiti in Washington, D.C.

Key: † Removed

* Artworks commemorating African Americans
* National Statuary Hall Collection
* sculptures
* National Statuary Hall
* Outdoor sculpture

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