Hundertwasser's comment on the work

A picture which as a picture is self-explanatory. Stories can only wind themselves around pictures on the outside, e.g., the price they bring at auction, inheritance disputes over the picture, stories about restoration or technique, theft, forgeries, where I happened to paint it, etc. But trying to get into the pictures with words is like a fish trying to fly to the moon. There is too much in between. Besides, the same picture sets very different feelings in motion from one person to the next. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 525)

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LES DERNIERES LARMES
DIE LETZTEN TRÄNEN
THE LAST TEARS

Mixed media
Chamonix, 1967
Painted at La Picaudière - Venice, Giudecca, June 1967 - Chamonix, July 22, 1967
1000 mm x 650 mm
Mixed media: egg tempera and oil on drawing paper, primed with chalk and PV; mounted on canvas with PV
  • Internationales Studentenheim der Stadt Wien, Vienna, 1968
  • W. Schmied, Hundertwasser - Der Weg zu Dir, Frankfurt am Main, 1967, ed. 1971, 1974, pl. 11 (c), p. 66
  • W. Schmied, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2000, Vol. I, pp. 187, 225 (c)
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 524/525 (and c)
  • Internationales Studentenheim der Stadt Wien, Vienna, 1968 (c)
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Alençon, 2001, p. 44
  • Broschure: Kunstwerk, Die Hundertwasser Ausgabe der Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, 1989, p. 19 (c)
  • Mizue, Aug. 1969, Tokyo (b)
  • Die österreichischen Volkshochschulen, no. 83, Dec. 1971, Vienna
  • Art Calendar, Hundertwasser 1980, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg (November, 47 x 34 cm, reversed sides)
  • Postcard, Joram Harel Management, Vienna, 1988
  • Hundertwasser Calendar 1990, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg (September)
  • Hundertwasser art agenda 1990, Caesar International Art, Stuttgart
  • Gift-tag, Museums Betriebs Gesellschaft mbH, Vienna, 1991 (detail)
  • Hundertwasser Calendar 2004, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg
  • Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne