Hundertwasser's comment on the work

I think this and the portrait 286 were thrown into a pourbelle (a Paris dustbin) by a jealous friend or husband. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 323)

281
GOTHIC WINDOWS
GOTISCHE FENSTER

Paris, 1956
Painted in Milan and Zurich, March - April, 1955, Paris, October 1956
500 mm x 650 mm
Watercolour on tinted drawing paper.Begun as a textile design; thrown away by Inger Koefoed's husband, copenhagen, 1956; Watercolour on tinted drawing paper.Begun as a textile design; thrown away by Inger Koefoed's husband, copenhagen, 1956
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, p. 323
  • Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, p. 149