Lot 185 | f - FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
1928-2000
BLOBS GROW IN BELOVED GARDENS
38 by 38cm.; 15 by 15in.
signed, dated 1975 and inscribed 745 Rakino-Perth; signed, titled and dated Rakino Island 26.4.74 on the reverse
watercolour, egg tempera, oil, lacquer and tinfoil fixed with Uhu on fibreboard, primed with chalk, zinc white and PVA
PROVENANCE
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
EXHIBITED
Vienna, Galerie Ulysses, Friedensreich Hundertwasser: Aquarelle-Druckgraphik, 1975
Tel Aviv, The Tel Aviv Museum and travelling..., World Travelling Exhibition: Austria Presents Hundertwasser to the Continents, 1976-1978, 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
Jean Zehnacker, Ed., Bahn Frei!, Paris 1996, p. 107, illustrated in colour
Joachim Becherer, Einblicke Mathematik 10, Leipzig 1997, p. 102, illustrated in colour
Andrea Christa Fürst, Hundetwasser: Werkverzeichnis Catalogue Raisonné, 1928-2000, Vol. II, Cologne 2002, p. 580, no. 745, illustrated in colour
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