Friedensreich Hundertwasser
"Columbus landed in India"
Signed Friedensreich and numbered 687. Painted at La Picaudière, May 5 - Seeshaupt, May 25 - Venice, Giudecca, July 2 1969. Mixed media: egg tempera, wax, oil and water colour on paper, primed with chalk and PV (polivenil); mounted on hemp with PV (polivenil) 81 x 111 cm.
Provenance
Felix Landau Galleri, Los Angeles.
Collection of Friedrich Grohe, Buchillon, Switzerland.
Art Consult, Feldmeilen, Switzerland.
Private collection (acquired from above 22 February 1987).
Exhibitions
Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles.
Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg, Germany, 29 February - 8 April 1972.
Salon de Mai, Paris, France, 1972.
Painting Box Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland, 1976.
Literature
Art International, Lugano, vol. XIX/3, March 20, 1975, illustrated page 19.
C. Garino, "Vienne et le réalisme fantastique", 1976, illustrated in colour.
Scope RTL 87, 1987, illustrated in colour page 107.
Exhibition catalogue, Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Alençon, 2001, page 44.
Andrea Christa Fürst, "Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné", vol. II, 2002, No. 687, page 539, illustrated in colour page 540.
Barbara Steiff, "Hundertwasser für Kinder", 2007, illustrated in colour page 31.
More information
Certificate issued by Hundertwasser-Archive included.