Hundertwasser's comment on the work

At times I painted on my print graphics with watercolours, and frequently I also mounted graphics on canvas, primed the unprinted portions of the paper or parts of the picture white and painted over them with mixed technique; sometimes I mounted just the graphic in question, several graphics or parts of graphics on canvas and used some of it as a ground for a painting, leaving parts of the graphics as they were. Often the graphics and mixed technique are so intricately combined that you can't tell the difference. Sometimes I pitied buyers who had successfully bid for a graphic at auction, thinking it was a "real oil painting", especially because the paper margin had been cut off and it was mounted on canvas and framed under glass. So I made it into a "genuine picture" with an ?uvre number of its own. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 479)