Lot 210
  • 210

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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Description

  • Friedensreich Hundertwasser
  • Tree Man VaseVase Tree ManMan Vase Tree
  • signed, dated 1974 and inscribed 743 Oct. Opua N.Z. In Craigs Hut; signed, titled, dated Ardmore September 5 October 74 and inscribed 743 Craigs Hut In Opua Ao Tea Roa on adhesive paper affixed to the reverse
  • watercolour, egg tempera, acrylic an oil on paper primed with white chalk, mounted on linen
  • 73.6 by 50.2cm.; 29 by 19 3/4 in.

Provenance

Foster Goldstrom, San Francisco
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Munich, Haus der Kunst and travelling...., World Travelling Exhibition: Austria Presents Hundertwasser to the Continents, 1975-1978, illustrated in colour
New York, Aberbach Fine Art; Tokyo, Tokyo Gallery and travelling..., Hundertwasser is Painting, 1979-1981, illustrated in colour  

Literature

Hans Brockstedt, Ed., Ao Tea Roa - Insel der verlorenen Wünsche, Hamburg 1979, illustrated in colour
Reiko Koyonagi, Ed., Hundertwasser, Tokyo 1988, p. 32, no. 70, illustrated in colour
Andrea Christa Fürst, Hundertwasser: Werkverzeichnis Catalogue Raisonné, 1928-2000, Vol. II, Cologne 2002, pp. 577-578, no. 743, illustrated in colour