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This work, sold with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist and dated Vienna, August 1998, is registered at the Hundertwasser Archives under no. 716.
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Grüne Welle
Details
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000)
Grüne Welle
signed, dated and numbered '716 Hunderwasser, 1972-73' (lower left); signed, dated twice and numbered again, titled and extensively annotated 'Grüne Welle, Hundertwasser, 1973, 716' (on the reverse)
watercolour, coloured pencil and oil on cardboard with aluminium centre prepared with chalk and vinyl
17 x 24¼in. (44 x 63cm.)
Executed in 1972-73
Grüne Welle
signed, dated and numbered '716 Hunderwasser, 1972-73' (lower left); signed, dated twice and numbered again, titled and extensively annotated 'Grüne Welle, Hundertwasser, 1973, 716' (on the reverse)
watercolour, coloured pencil and oil on cardboard with aluminium centre prepared with chalk and vinyl
17 x 24¼in. (44 x 63cm.)
Executed in 1972-73
Provenance
Aberbach Fine Art, New York, 1973
Mr and Mrs Jacob B. Noble, Miami, 1974-75.
Aberbach Fine Art, New York, 1975.
Acquired from the above by Russeck Gallery, Palm Beach, in 1975.
Private Collection, Philadelphia.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998.
Mr and Mrs Jacob B. Noble, Miami, 1974-75.
Aberbach Fine Art, New York, 1975.
Acquired from the above by Russeck Gallery, Palm Beach, in 1975.
Private Collection, Philadelphia.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998.
Literature
To the Point International, Antwerp, vol. II, no. 13, 28 June 1975, p. 50 (illustrated).
Cicero (ed.), Art Calendar, Stuttgart 1975 and 1976 (illustrated in colour, July).
Buchheim (ed.), Art Calendar, Feldafing 1976 (illustrated in colour, August).
Buchheim (ed.), Art Calendar: Hundertwasser, Feldafing 1982 (illustrated in colour, August).
Cicero (ed.), Art Calendar, Stuttgart 1975 and 1976 (illustrated in colour, July).
Buchheim (ed.), Art Calendar, Feldafing 1976 (illustrated in colour, August).
Buchheim (ed.), Art Calendar: Hundertwasser, Feldafing 1982 (illustrated in colour, August).
Exhibited
Auckland, City Art Gallery, Hundertwasser, May-June 1973. This exhibition travelled to New Plymouth, Wellington, Palmerston North, Christchurch and Dunedin, 1973.
New York, Aberbach Fine Arts, Hundertwasser, 1973 (illustrated in the catalogue in colour, p. 59).
New York, Aberbach Fine Arts, Hundertwasser, 1973 (illustrated in the catalogue in colour, p. 59).
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