Lot 60
  • 60

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
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Description

  • Friedensreich Hundertwasser
  • Five Men Standing
  • signed, dated 1951 and numbered 119
  • watercolour, chalk and glue on paper
  • 32 by 50cm.
  • 12 1/2 by 19 5/8 in.

Provenance

Joachim Jean Aberbach, New York

Exhibited

Vienna, Art-Club, Hundertwasser Malerei, 1952, no. 8
Berkley, University of California, University Art Museum; Santa Barbara, Museum of Art; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; Chicago, The Arts Club; New York, Gallery St. Etienne; Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1968-69, p. 27, no, 7, illustrated in colour
Auckland, City Art Gallery; New Plymouth, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery; Wellington, The New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts; Christchurch, City Art Gallery; Dunedin, City Art Gallery, Hundertwasser 1973 New Zealand, 1973 

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hundertwasser, 1964, p. 109
Wieland Schmied, Hundertwasser, Salzburg 1974, p. 310, pl. 15, illustrated in colour
Andrea Christa Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000: Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. II, Cologne 2002, p. 211, no. 119, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Close inspection reveals very soft and unobtrusive undulation to the paper.
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Catalogue Note

"My painting is completely different because it is vegetative painting. One reason why other people do not want to paint vegetatively or want to take a vegetative way of Life is because it begins too unpretentiously. It does not have great éclat or drum roll; on the contrary it grows quite slowly and simply." (the artist cited in: Exhibition Catalogue, London, Barbican Art Gallery, Hundertwasser on Hurdertwasser, 1983, p. 118)