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I FIORI GIUDICHERANNO GLI UOMINI - ESPLOSIONE - EVOLUZIONE
DIE BLUMEN WERDEN DIE MENSCHEN RICHTEN
The Flowers Will Pass Judgement on Man - Explosion - Evolution
Near Florence, 1954
Painted in Lapicirella, near Florence, Casa Bargellini, October 15, 1954
740 mm x 500 mm
Watercolour and coloured pencil on wrapping paper, primed with chalk, zinc white and fish glue
- Galleria del Naviglio, Milan, 1955
- Galerie Thomas, Basel, 1970
- W. Schmied, Hundertwasser, Salzburg, 1974, pl. 45 (c), p. 313
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 276/277 (and c)
- Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, p. 129
- Fine Art Print, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg, 1976 (with metal imprints)
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
Nature, the trees, have a message for us human beings. It is like a sealed book so the message doesn't get into the wrong hands. But the message is very simple; only man in his blindness cannot make it out. But the trees can wait, until man is ready, even if it takes an eternity, for man once had the ability to read in this book of nature and understand this language. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 276)