135
DIE GLORREICHEN SIEBEN
THE GLORIOUS SEVEN
SETTE TESTE
Venice, 1952
Painted in Venice, Ca'Foscari, July 1952
in the company of Bernardina's brother
in the company of Bernardina's brother
370 mm x 500 mm
Watercolour and gold bronze on paper
- Galleria Sandri, Venice, 1952
- Travelling exhibition 1964/65:
- Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964
- Kunsthalle Bern, 1964
- Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, 1964
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1964
- Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1965
- Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1965
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- Galerie Krugier/Galerie Georges Moos, Geneva, 1967
- Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, 1998
- Commune di Firenze, Florence, 1963
- Galleria Brera, Milan-Asta, 1963
- Spiegel Gold, Nuremberg, 1967
- ART 10'79, Basel, 1979
- Art´96, Chicago, 1996
- Art'96, Basel, 1996
- Landau Fine Art, Montreal, 2000
- W. Schmied, Hundertwasser, Feldafing, 1964 and ed. 1973, pp. 17 (c), 45
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, p. 226 (c)
- Galleria Brera, Milan, 1963, pl. 162 (c)
- Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, pp. 50 (c), 113
- Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1964, cat. 13
- Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1965, cat. 18
- Galerie Krugier/Galerie Georges Moos, Geneva, 1967 (c)
- University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1968, p. 41 (b)
- Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, 1998, p. 37 (c)
- Millennium Exhibition, 20th Century Masters, Landau Fine Art, Montreal, 2000, p.35 (c)
- Christie's International Magazine, Oct/Nov. 1995, London, p. 75 (c)
- artInvestor, no. 2, Munich, 2001, p. 17 (c)
- Postcard, Buchheim Verlag, Feldafing, 1964
- Calendar 1974, Edition Tre Croci, Modena, printed by Buchheim Verlag, Feldafing (295 x 400 mm)
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
This watercolour was done in great haste. I only needed an hour. At the time I gave the little Sandri Gallery on Campo Manin, which no longer exists, a folder of rotary prints and wanted to leave the city afterwards. By chance I passed by the place again and saw that every one of the ten prints was hanging on the wall in a handsome frame, and at the entrance was a sign, "Mostra Hundertwasser". So I went in and said to Mr. Sandri, "What are you doing? Why didn't you tell me you were going to do a show? I've got to make something more for you so there will be originals in it, too, and the exhibition looks more serious." I immediately postponed my departure and painted two watercolours., this one and 136 Il Bacio, in a flurry of activity. That was my first exhibition. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 226)