Friedensreich Hundertwasser (B. 1928)

Porträt der Roslyn (III: mit drei Augen und Orange-Hautnetz)

Details

Friedensreich Hundertwasser (B. 1928)
Porträt der Roslyn (III: mit drei Augen und Orange-Hautnetz)
signed and dated 'HUNDERTWASSER 1951' (lower right)
gouache and crayon on paper
12.1/8 x 9¾in. (30.8 x 25cm.)
Executed in Marrakesh in 1951

Provenance

Roslyn Robles, Paris

Literature

W. Hoffmann, Hundertwasser, Salzburg, 1965, no. 5 (illustrated)

Exhibited

Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hundertwasser. 100. Ausstellung der Kestner-Gesellschaft seit der Wiedereröffnung nach dem Kriege, 25 Mar.-3 May 1964, no. 113. This exhibition later travelled to Bern, Kunsthalle Bern; Hagen, Karl-Ernst Osthaus Museum; Amsterdam, Stedelijk-Museum; Stockholm, Moderna Museet.

Lot Essay

The present work, depicting the young American artist Roslyn Robles, with whom Hundertwasser was travellig across North Africa in the early 50s, is one of the earliest instances where the artist deployed the compositional device of the spiral. This was to become central to his ouevre: "Die formale Eigenheit der Werke von Hundertwasser besteht in der Strudelform, der forme-tourbillon", as Shinichi Segi stated. (c.f.: Exh. Cat. Hundertwasser, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover 1964, p. 56)

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