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GOUFFRE BLEU AUX DENTS
BLAUER STRUDEL MIT ZÄHNEN
Blue Vortex with Teeth
St. Maurice/Seine, 1955
St. Maurice/Seine, December 1955
520 mm x 670 mm
Watercolour on white paper
- Galerie St. Stephan, Vienna, 1957
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- 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
- Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Orangerie, Vienna, 2013
- Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, 2013/14
- Dorotheum, Vienna, 1963
- art austria, Vienna, 2015
- W. Schmied, Hundertwasser, Feldafing, 1964 and ed. 1973, pp. 19 (c), 45
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 303 (and c), 304
- Regentag-Wassergläser für das Leben, Vienna, 2011, p. 34 (c, English edition)
- Leaflet: Galerie St. Stephan, Vienna, 1957, cat. 24
- Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, pp. 140, 183 (c)
- Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1964, cat. 47
- Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1965, cat. 58
- Hundertwasser, Japan und die Avantgarde, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Orangerie, Vienna, 2013, p. 196 (c)
- Connaissance des arts, Oct. 1963, Paris (b)
- Postcard, Buchheim Verlag, Feldafing, 1967 (repr.)
- Calendar, Buchheim Verlag, Feldafing, 1972, (April, postcard size, c)
- Calendar, Buchheim Verlag, Feldafing, 1974 (January, 40 x 30,5 cm)
- Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
The painting is very delicately and very flatly painted on a piece of paper I hadn't primed beforehand. The title had been decided on from the beginning. The picture is now owned by an Italian collector, and he simply cannot understand the title: strudel (Maelstrom) is to him Wiener Strudel: that the word can also mean a whirlpool of water most Germans don't even know, either, I think. The story of the picture didn't really begin until later, at an auction in the Vienna Dorotheum. For that was when it went for a very high price. While it was being auctioned I was following things on the telephone. I happened to be in Hamburg. (from: Hundertwasser, Buchheim Verlag, Feldafing, 1964 and ed. 1973, p. 18)