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LA FOUDRE
DER BLITZ
The Bolt of Lightning
IL FULMINE

Mixed media
La Picaudière, 1959
Painted at La Picaudière, 1959
970 mm x 1460 mm
Mixed media: oil, egg tempera, sand with oil on wrapping paper, primed with chalk and PV; mounted on canvas with PV
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

This painting was sent to Milan for the Premio Lissone and was not accepted (Lit. 100.000,-). It was then not returned to the artist by the secretary of the Premio Lissone, but given to a collector. (Ref. Exhibition catalogue, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover 1964, p. 181: "On the occasion of the Premio Lissone 1959 against my will retained and given to Carlo Monzino, Milan, by Guido Le Noci, Milan.")

mehr weniger
  • Premio Lissone, Milan-Torino, 1959
  • W. Schmied, Hundertwasser, Salzburg, 1974, pl. 68 (c), p. 316
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, p. 384 (c)
  • Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, p. 181
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Alençon, 2001, p. 40
  • Letter against Le Noci, October 16, 1959 (b)
  • G. Dorfles, Ultime tendenze nell'arte d'oggi, Milan, 1961 (b)
  • Express, Nov. 1959, Vienna (c)
  • Postcard, Gruener Janura AG, Glarus, 1974 (repr.)
  • Hundertwasser 2012 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)