FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER (1928-2000) - photo 1

FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER (1928-2000)

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09.03.2024 13:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 460 | FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER (1928-2000)
FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER (1928-2000)

Der Parlamentarische Inhalt eines Pfeiles (The Parliamentarian Content of an Arrow)

signed and dated 'HUNDERT-WASSER 1954' (upper right); inscribed and dated 'PORTA PORTESE CONTENU D'UN D'UNE FLÈCHE OSPEDALE S. SPIRITO ROMA SEPT. 54' (on the reverse)

watercolour, indelible pencil, chalk, zinc white and fish glue on envelope

14 7⁄8 x 25 3⁄8in. (37.7 x 64.6cm.)

Executed in 1954





Provenance

Private Collection, North Germany (acquired directly from the artist probably in the 1960s).

Thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

Das Kunstwerk, 1956, no. 5 (illustrated, p. 45).

P. Restany, Hundertwasser, Écrits d'Hundertwasser, Paris 1957, p. 13, no. 189 (illustrated, unpaged; incorrectly titled).

W. Schmied, Hundertwasser, Salzburg 1974, pp. 186 and 313, no. 44 (illustrated in colour, p. 187).

Hanover, Constructa 74, 1974.

A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Werkverzeichnis - Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Cologne 2002, no. 188 (illustrated in colour, p. 268).



Exhibited

Milan, Galleria del Naviglio, Hundertwasser, 1955.

Paris, Galerie H. Kamer, Aquarelles d'Hundertwasser, 1958.

Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hundertwasser, 1963-1965, no. 188. This exhibition later travelled to Bern, Kunsthalle Bern; Hagen, Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum; Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and Stockholm, Moderna Museet.

Hanover, Constructa 74, 1974.

Braunschweig, Städtische Museum, Hundertwasser - Gemälde, Graphiken, Tapisserien, Architekturmodelle, Japanische Holzschnitte, 1996.
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