Hundertwasser's comment on the work

The painting has been lost track of in Paris, and this colour reproduction was reconstructed with much effort from a fading transparency. Gardens are dreams. I asked the clairvoyant Manou Iserentant, of Melun, near Paris, to employ her powers to send a buyer for me to Galerie Paul Facchetti, 17 rue de Lille, where my first Paris exhibition was taking place but nothing had been sold. At the predicted time I was alone in the gallery. Nobody had come in all day. Only a cheaply clad law student came in, asked about the prices and bought the "Garden". However, I would have to visit him at home, because he didn't have any money with him. I got a quarter of the price from him; the rest never came. He told me he walked along Rue de Lille every day, but this time he had followed an inexplicable urge and gone into an art gallery for the first time in his life. He didn't understand art and was colourblind besides. Later I wanted to photograph the "Garden" and exhibit it, but Madame Ferbos told me her husband was dead and she knew nothing about this painting. At Manou Iserentant's I painted 178 The Green Woman - The Political Gardener. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 211)