Hundertwasser's comment on the work

This picture was exhibited at the Galleria Canale, near the Academy in Venice, and was sold to Peggy Guggenheim. I only got a small share of the list price, with the explanation that Peggy Guggenheim had only paid a fraction of the price. But from her I learned that she had had to pay many times more than the list price. So I paid Peggy Guggenheim the difference she had been cheated out of from my own pocket. For I was pedantically keen on keeping my prices steady. They were not supposed to get too high or too low. I even went to court if dealers asked too much. And this was never because of my share. My colleagues thought I was crazy to keep higher prices down at all costs. But I knew exactly what I was doing. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 393)

435
CASA CHE PROTEGGE
DIE SCHUTZHÜTTE
Shelter

Paris, 1960
Painted in Vienna - Paris, May 1960
640 mm x 492 mm
Watercolour on wrapping paper, primed with chalk and PV; mounted on wood pulp board
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

  • Galerie Raymond Cordier, Paris, 1960
  • Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Orangerie, Vienna, 2013
  • Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, 2013/14
  • Galleria d'Arte il Canale, Venice, 1960
  • Tate Gallery, London, 1964/65
  • Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1966/67
  • Louisiana, Humblebaek, 1967
  • The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1969
  • Orangerie des Tuileries, Paries, 1974/75
  • Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Torino, 1975/76
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, p. 392/393 (and c)
  • Leaflet: Galerie Raymond Cordier, Paris, 1960 (c)
  • Anti-Procès, Venice, 1960 (c)
  • Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1964, p. 190
  • The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Tate Gallery, London, 1964, cat. 155
  • Peggy Guggenheims samling fran Venedig, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1966, cat. 143
  • Peggy Guggenheim - Samlingen fra Venedig, Louisiana, Humblebaek, 1967, cat. 143
  • Works from the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1969, p. 175 (c)
  • Art due XXe Siècle: Fondation Peggy Guggenheim, Venise, Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, 1974, cat. 149, pp. 11/12
  • Arte del XX Secolo, La Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Torino, 1975, cat. 176
  • Hundertwasser, Japan und die Avantgarde, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Orangerie, Vienna, 2013, p. 130 (c)
  • N. Calas / E. Calas, The Peggy Guggenheim Collection of Modern Art, New York, 1966, cat. 171 (c), (repr. 2001: pp. 9/10, c)
  • L'Oeil, no. 74, Feb. 1961, Lausanne, p. 11 (b)
  • Postcard, Edizioni del Gavallino, Venice, 1964 (together with 167, repr.)
  • Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne
  • Calendar, Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2008, Borer & Wörner, Zug
  • Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2009, Wörner, Rutesheim
  • Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2014, Wörner, Rutesheim
  • Postcard, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 2019