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THE SUNSET MAN IN BLACK CITY
Berkeley, 1968
Painted in Venice, Giudecca, September - Berkeley, October 1968
925 mm x 660 mm
Mixed media: egg tempera, watercolour, lacquer and oil on Fabriano paper, primed with chalk and PV; mounted on hemp with PV
- Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, 1969
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 536/537 (and c)
- American and European Painting and Watercolours, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, 1969, no. 14 (c)
- J. Kluge (ed.), Entdeckungen machen 2, Berlin, 1993, p. 116 (c)
- Resurgence at the heart of earth, art and spirit, no. 262, September/October 2010, Bideford, p. 21 (c)
- Postcard, Joram Harel Management, Vienna, 1988
- Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
It is spiral emanations which come from man, not the halo. These emanations hurt when they bounce off linear houses. Man's nervous system is not straight in shape, it is organic, like everything in nature, and it cries out a warning when it encounters the straight-linedness surrounding us. These alarm bells ring incessantly because there is no escaping the chaos of straight lines. Man grows ill emotionally and doesn't know why. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 536)