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
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
Private Collection, Vienna.
Anon. sale, Dorotheum Vienna, May 1963.
Private Collection, Venice.
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).
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.
Specialist note
This work is recorded in the Hundertwasser archives under no. 242.
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