Lot 101
  • 101

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Estimate
90,000 - 130,000 EUR
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Description

  • Friedensreich Hundertwasser
  • Les Lunettes Adoucissantes d’Alain Jouffroy - Deuxième tableau sous l'effet moindre de la Philocybine
  • signed, inscribed and dated 1966; variously inscribed on a label affixed to the reverse
  • watercolour and mixed media on paper laid down on canvas 
  • 50 x 64,5 cm; 19 11/16 x 25 3/8 in.
  • Executed in 1958-1966.

Provenance

Galerie Flinker, Paris
Private Collection, Europe

Exhibited

Rome, Galleria La Medusa, Hundertwasser, November 1962; catalogue, n.p., illustrated in colour
Paris, Galerie Karl Flinker; Londres, Hanover Gallery; Genève, Galerie Krugier & Cie., Genève, Galerie Moos; Berlin, Kunstverein, Hundertwasser, Peintures récentes, 22 March - 26 August 1967; catalogue, n.p., illustrated in colour
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Austria presents Hundertwasser to the Continents, 6 May - 6 July 1975; catalogue, p. 315, illustrated in colour
Luxembourg, Musée de l'Etat, Austria presents Hundertwasser to the Continents, 15 July - 7 September 1975; catalogue, p. 217, illustrated in colour
Marseille, Musée Cantini, Austria presents Hundertwasser to the Continents, 23 September - 31 October 1975; catalogue, p. 217, illustrated in colour
Paris, Galerie Patrice Trigano, Hundertwasser, Peintures Parcours Rétrospectif, 1 December 1999 - 29 January 2000; catalogue, n.p., no. 6, illustrated in colour

Literature

Italo Tomassoni, Per una ipotesi barocca, Rome, 1963, p. 14, illustrated in colour (original version)
Exh. Cat., Hanovre, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hundertwasser, 25 March - 3 May 1964, p. 94, illustrated in colour (original version), p. 173, illustrated
Regentag Hundertwasser, Rainy Day - Jour de pluie, Munich, 1972, pp. 47, 85, illustrated in colour (original version)
Wieland Schmied, Hundertwasser, Salzburg, 1974, p. 315, pl. 63, illustrated in colour
Hundertwasser Postcardbook: Lost and Stolen Pictures, Koln, 1995, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Cairo, A.S.U. Hall, Austria presents Hundertwasser to the Continents, 20 November - 17 December 1975, p. 217, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, Austria presents Hundertwasser to the Continents, 22 July - 22 August 1976, p. 315, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Dakar, Musée Dynamique, Austria presents Hundertwasser to the Continents, 4 November - 5 December 1976, p. 315, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Austria presents Hundertwasser to the Continents, 29 mars - 30 avril 1978, p. 315, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Bruxelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Austria presents Hundertwasser to the Continents, 14 September - 30 October 1978, p. 315, illustrated in colour
E. Goldsmith, Research in illustration, Brighton, 1981, p. 150, illustrated
Andrea C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. II, Koln, 2002, pp. 371-372, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Liverpool, Tate; Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle; Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, Summer of love, Psychedelische Kunst der 60er Jahre, 27 May 2005 - 3 September 2006: p. 226, illustrated in colour
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Pierre Restany, Hundertwasser, New York, 2008, p. 63, illustrated in colour

Condition

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration, although the overall tonality is lighter and the blue and yellow are more vivid in the original work. The precise technique used by the artist is described by him on the reverse of the canvas. Few light superficial wears located near the lower edge close to the rim have resulted in tiny pigment losses. Under very close inspection, there are few light superficial scratches scattered on the matt surface. This work is very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

© 2018 Hundertwasser Archive, Vienna

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.