French street art legend Miss.Tic dies aged 66

Miss.Tic's work often included clever wordplays - almost always lost in translation - and a heroine with flowing black hair who resembled the artist herself. The images became fixtures on walls across the French capital. Photo: AFP

Miss.Tic, whose provocative work began cropping up in the Montmartre neighbourhood of Paris in the mid-80s and made her a pioneer of French street art, died on Sunday aged 66, her family told AFP.

Radhia Novat grew up in the narrow streets in the shadow of Sacre-Coeur basilica, the daughter of a Tunisian father and a mother from Normandy in western France, where she began stencilling sly and emancipatory slogans.