Hundertwasser's comment on the work

One shouldn't paint women one is in love with. Every time you do, you lose her. There must be a curse on painting them. And the women I haven't painted, I haven't lost. I used the right half of the painting - in completely different colours - for the silkscreen print 964 The Palisade. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 511)

633
VERSÄUMTER FRÜHLING - DAS SCHWARZE LOCH
MISSED SPRING
LE PRINTEMPS RATE

Mixed media
Hahnsäge, 1966
Painted at Berghotel, Kanzelhöhe, May 30, 1966 - La Picaudière, June - Hahnsäge, October 17, 1966
530 mm x 730 mm
Mixed media: watercolour, egg tempera, oil, gold bronze and gold foil on drawing paper, primed with chalk and PV; mounted on jute with PV
  • Travelling exhibition 1967:
  • Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, 1967
  • Hanover Gallery, London, 1967
  • Galerie Krugier / Galerie Georges Moos, Geneva, 1967
  • Kunstverein Berlin, 1967
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  • Landau Fine Art, Montreal, 1994
  • Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, 1998
  • Art 39 Basel, Basle, 2008
  • Herbstausstellung, Kovacek Spiegelgasse, Vienna, 2008
  • W. Schmied, Hundertwasser - Der Weg zu Dir, Frankfurt am Main, 1967, ed. 1971, 1974, pl. 19 (c), p. 67
  • J.F. Mathey, Hundertwasser, Munich, 1985 and ed. 1992, p. 55 (c)
  • W. Schmied, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2000, Vol. I, pp. 197, 200 (c)
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 511/512 (and c)
  • Galerie Karl Flinker, Paris, 1967 (c)
  • Hanover Gallery, London, 1967 (c)
  • Galerie Krugier / Galerie Georges Moos, Geneva, 1967 (c)
  • Kunstverein Berlin, 1967 (c)
  • Landau Fine Art, Montreal, 1994, p. 61 (c)
  • Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, 1998, p. 99 (c)
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Alençon, 2001, p. 44
  • Österreichische Malerei des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Kovacek Spiegelgasse, Vienna, 2008, p. 73 (c)
  • Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (repr. 2005-2009)
  • Hundertwasser 2012 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)