Hundertwasser's comment on the work

The picture is important to me because it is the only one done on a white ground - on canvas - which my mother prepared herself. She wanted to paint on it, but then she died. Then the prepared canvas was kicking around my place for years. After my mother tried at all costs to talk me out of taking up painting as my profession: that was a "starveling's trade", she later, at about age seventy, took up painting herself, I think to prove to me that she could paint, too, in the naive style of Grandma Moses, who, at a very advanced age, after a full life, began to paint in her retirement and became a sensation in the art world. Grandma Moses painted until she was over a hundred years old; my mother died at 87. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, pp. 696-697)