Lot 59
  • 59

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
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Description

  • Friedensreich Hundertwasser
  • Contretemps II Berlin - The Promise of Berlin
  • signed and dated 1965 and numbered 620
  • oil, polyvinyl, egg and tile on paper laid down on canvas
  • 46 by 54.5cm.
  • 18 1/8 by 21 1/2 in.

Provenance

Galerie de France, Paris
Acquired directly from the above 

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Karl Flinker; London, Hanover Gallery; Geneva, Galerie Krugier, Hundertwasser Recent Paintings, 1967, pl. 620, illustrated in colour
Berlin, Galerie Georges Moos and Kunstverein, Galerie Hammer, Theater und Galerie im Europa-Center, Hundertwasser Retrospective, 1967, illustrated in colour
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Hundertwasser, 1975, p. 257, illustrated in colour

Literature

Wieland Schmied, Hundertwasser - Der Weg zu Dir, Frankfurt am Main 1967, 1971 and 1974, p. 66, pl. 8, illustrated in colour
Jean-François Mathey, Hundertwasser, Naefels 1985 and Bindlach 1992, p. 35, illustrated in colour
Exhibition Catalogue, Luxembourg, Musée de l'Etat; Marseille, Musée Cantini; Cairo, A.S.U. Hall, Hundertwasser, 1975, p. 257, illustrated in colour
Exhibition Catalogue, Copenhagen, Statens Museum fur Kunst; Dakar, Musée Dynamique, Hundertwasser, 1976, p. 355, illustrated in colour
Exhibition Catalogue, Montreal, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Hundertwasser, p. 355, illustrated in colour
Andrea Christa Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. II, Cologne 2002, p. 499, no. 620, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the colours are more vibrant in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. No restoration is apparent under ultraviolet light.
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