Nicola L, a French Pop artist who was best known for wry feminist sculpture of female and male forms that often function as furniture, died on Dec. 31 in Los Angeles. She is thought to have been in her mid-80s.

Her death was announced this month by her sons, Christophe and David Lanzenberg. No cause was given. She had moved to Los Angeles 18 months ago to be near her family, having lived for many years in Manhattan, mostly at the Chelsea Hotel.

Although well known in Europe in the 1960s and ’70s, Nicola L — she was born Nicola Leuthe — did not have her first institutional survey until 2017, when the Sculpture Center in Long Island City, Queens, mounted a show of about 50 of her works dating from 1968 to the present.

That relative obscurity over the years could be attributed in part to her spreading herself thin as she moved frequently among different media, including performance, film and painting; and in part to her tendency to exhibit in the nearly mutually exclusive worlds of art and furniture design galleries.