Hundertwasser's comment on the work

I gave the picture to a girl who lived on Montmartre. But she turned around and sold it. That happened to me so often, until I stopped giving away pictures. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 258)

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AUTOBUS

Oil
St. Mandé/Seine, 1953
Painted in St. Mandé/Seine, Castel Dumage, November, 1953
490 mm x 910 mm
Oil on two joint box covers made of wood fibre, primed with chalk, zinc white and fish glue. Top centre shows triangular hole and top left it has a square corner cut out. Surrounded by a "baguette électrique".
Albertina, Vienna; The Essl Collection

The artist gave this painting as a present to Nicole Derlon in May, 1954.

mehr weniger
  • Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris, 1954
  • Galerie Raymond Cordier, Paris, 1960
  • 31st Venice Biennial, 1962
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  • Travelling exhibition 1968/69:
  • University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1968
  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1968/69
  • The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1969
  • The Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 1969
  • The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, 1969
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  • Galerie Ariadne, Cologne, 1972
  • Galerie Krugier, Geneva, 1973
  • Galerie Paul Facchetti, Paris, 1974/75
  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, April 1991 - June 1995
  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, 2008/09
  • Kunsthalle Bremen, 2012/13
  • Art Fair, Dusseldorf, 1973
  • Art Fair, Basel, 1973
  • Künstlerhaus, Vienna, 1996
  • Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der BRD, Bonn, 1996
  • Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, 2006
  • Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, 2010
  • Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, 2014
  • Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, 2016
  • Das Hundertwasser Haus, Vienna, 1985, p. 21 (c)
  • Hundertwasser Architektur, Cologne, 1996, p. 20 (c) and ed. 2006, p. 16 (c)
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 258/259 (and c)
  • Leaflet: Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris, 1954 (b)
  • Leaflet: Galerie Raymond Cordier, Paris, 1960 (c)
  • XXXI. Biennale di Venezia, Austria, 1962, cat. 5
  • Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, p. 124
  • University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1968, p. 58 (c), cat. 24
  • Postcard-Catalogue, Galerie Paul Facchetti, Paris, 1974, cat. 30 (c)
  • W. Schmied (ed.), Malerei in Österreich 1945-1995 - Die Sammlung Essl, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, 1996, pp. 80 (c), 294
  • Kunst aus Österreich 1896-1996, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der BRD, Bonn, 1996, p. 68 (c)
  • Der unbekannte Hundertwasser, KunstHausWien, Vienna, 2008, pp. 89 (and c), 287
  • Schönes Klosterneuburg, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, 2010, pp. 80 (c) and 108
  • Gegen den Strich. Werke 1949-1970, Kunsthalle Bremen, 2012/13, pp. 96/97 (c), 254
  • made in austria, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, 2014, p. 35 (c)
  • R. Toman, Wien, Kunst und Architektur, Cologne, 1999, p. 426 (c)
  • R. Toman (ed.), Wien - Kunst und Architektur, Königswinter, 2008, p. 426 (c)
  • Art d'aujourd'hui, no. 5, Feb. 1954, Paris (b)
  • Cimaise, no. 4, Feb./March, 1954, Paris (b)
  • Bijutsu Techo, no. 10, Oct. 1954, Tokyo (b)
  • Connaissance des arts, no. 275, Jan. 1975, Paris, p. 66 (c)
  • Postcard, Paris, 1954 (b)
  • Postcard, Edizioni del Cavallino, Venice, 1968 (together with 204, 280, 426, 433)
  • Art Calendar 1993: Bus und Bahn in der Malerei, Dr. Schwarze Verlag, Wuppertal (56 x 49,5; February)
  • Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (repr. 2005 - 2010)