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This work is recorded in the Hundertwasser archives under no. 717.
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Haus für Bäume und auch für Menschen - Zwei Stockwerke
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Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000)
Haus für Bäume und auch für Menschen - Zwei Stockwerke
signed, numbered and dated '717 1972-73 Friedensreich' (lower left); signed, titled, dated and extensively inscribed (on the reverse and on two labels attached to the reverse)
oil, watercolour, egg tempera and coloured pencil on canvasboard
7¾ x 11¾in (19.8 x 29.6cm.)
Executed between August 1972 and January 1973
Haus für Bäume und auch für Menschen - Zwei Stockwerke
signed, numbered and dated '717 1972-73 Friedensreich' (lower left); signed, titled, dated and extensively inscribed (on the reverse and on two labels attached to the reverse)
oil, watercolour, egg tempera and coloured pencil on canvasboard
7¾ x 11¾in (19.8 x 29.6cm.)
Executed between August 1972 and January 1973
Provenance
Urban & Pierigal Antiquitäten, Munich.
Literature
Exh. cat., Austria presents Hundertwasser to the continent, Stuttgart 1980, no. 717 (illustrated in colour p. 231).
Hundertwasser Postcard book, Cologne 1995 (illustrated in colour).
Hundertwasser Postcard book, Cologne 1995 (illustrated in colour).
Exhibited
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1975, no. 717 (illustrated in colour p. 377). This exhibition later travelled to Luxembourg, Musée de l'Etat; Marseille, Musée Cantini; Cairo, A.S.U. Hall; Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art; Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe; Reykjavik, National Gallery of Iceland; Copenhagen, Satens Museum for Kunst; Dakar, Musée Dynamique; Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Modern Art; Hong Kong, Museum of Art; Cape Town, South African National Gallery; Pretoria, Pretoria Art Museum; Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna; São Paulo, Museu de Arte; Caracas, Museo des Bellas Artes; Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno; Montreal, Musée des Beaux-Arts; Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, and Budapest, Mücsarnok, 1975-1978. New York, Aberbach Fine Art, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1979. This exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, Tokyo Gallery and Hamburg, Galerie Brockstedt, 1979-1981.
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