135
DIE GLORREICHEN SIEBEN
THE GLORIOUS SEVEN
SETTE TESTE
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)