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This work is recorded in the Hundertwasser archives under no. 242.
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Blue Vortex with Teeth
Details
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000)
Blue Vortex with Teeth
signed, inscribed and dated 'Hundertwasser 12.1955 Paris' (lower right); signed 'Hundertwasser' (on the reverse)
watercolour on paper
19¼ x 25in. (49 x 63.6cm.)
Executed in 1955
Blue Vortex with Teeth
signed, inscribed and dated 'Hundertwasser 12.1955 Paris' (lower right); signed 'Hundertwasser' (on the reverse)
watercolour on paper
19¼ x 25in. (49 x 63.6cm.)
Executed in 1955
Provenance
Private Collection, Vienna.
Anon. sale, Dorotheum Vienna, May 1963.
Private Collection, Venice.
Anon. sale, Dorotheum Vienna, May 1963.
Private Collection, Venice.
Literature
Connaissance des Arts, October 1963 (illustrated).
W. Schmied, Hundertwasser, Feldafing 1964 (illustrated in colour, p. 19).
A.C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Cologne 2002 (illustrated in colour, p. 304).
Regentag - Wassergläser für das Leben, Vienna 2011 (illustrated in colour, p. 34).
W. Schmied, Hundertwasser, Feldafing 1964 (illustrated in colour, p. 19).
A.C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Cologne 2002 (illustrated in colour, p. 304).
Regentag - Wassergläser für das Leben, Vienna 2011 (illustrated in colour, p. 34).
Exhibited
Vienna, Galerie Naechst St. Stephan, Hundertwasser, 1957, no. 24.
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hundertwasser, 1964-65, no. 242 (illustrated in colour, p. 183). This exhibition later travelled to Bern, Kunsthalle; Hagen, Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum; Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts; Amsterdam, Stedelijk-Museum and Stockholm, Moderna Museet.
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hundertwasser, 1964-65, no. 242 (illustrated in colour, p. 183). This exhibition later travelled to Bern, Kunsthalle; Hagen, Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum; Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts; Amsterdam, Stedelijk-Museum and Stockholm, Moderna Museet.
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