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SOUVENIR D'UNE AQUARELLE QUE LE VENT A EMPORTE
ERINNERUNG AN EIN AQUARELL, DAS DER WIND WEGGETRAGEN HAT
Remembering a Watercolour Which Was Carried Away by the Wind
St. Mandé/Seine, 1955
Painted in St. Mandé/Seine, August 1955
340 mm x 250 mm
Watercolour on wrapping paper, primed with chalk, zinc white and fish glue; with hole that has been painted around
KunstHausWien, Vienna (loan from a private collection)
- KunstHausWien, Vienna, since April 1991
- Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, 2013/14
- 4th São Paulo Biennial, 1957
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, p. 298 (c)
- Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, pp. 46 (c), 137
- Hundertwasser, Japan und die Avantgarde, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Orangerie, Vienna, 2013, p. 239 (c)
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
I was still upset that the wind had blown painting 78 Trees away. I wanted to paint a new one from memory. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 298)