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ISLAND OF LOST DESIRE - MORETON BAY FIG
INSEL DER VERLORENEN WÜNSCHE
ILE DES DESIRS PERDUS
Bay of Islands, 1975
Painted at Bay of Islands, N.Z. - Motuarohia Island, October - November, 1975
590 mm x 480 mm
Mixed media: watercolour, egg tempera, PVA, oil, lacquer and tinfoil on hardboard, primed with chalk and acrylic
- World Travelling Museum Exhibition:
- Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, 1976
- National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, 1976
- Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 1976
- Musée Dynamique, Dakar, 1976
- Seibu Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1977
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- Travelling exhibition 1979-1981:
- Aberbach Fine Art, New York, 1979
- Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, 1980
- Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg, 1980
- Hammerlunds Kunsthandel, Oslo, 1980
- Galerie Würthle, Vienna, 1981
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- Art Fair, Basel, 1979
- FIAC, Paris, 1980
- P. Restany, Hundertwasser, New York, 1978, p. 125 (c)
- H. Brockstedt (ed.), Ao Tea Roa, Hamburg, 1979 (c)
- J.F. Mathey, Hundertwasser, Munich, 1985 and ed. 1992, p. 68 (c)
- W. Schmied, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2000, Vol. I, pp. 210/211 (and c), 287
- Hundertwasser - Was braucht der Mensch um glücklich zu sein?, Munich, 2002, p. 41 (c)
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 588/589 (and c)
- Hundertwasser - Wenn einer alleine träumt..., Munich, 2003, p. 21 (c)
- F. Hundertwasser / P. Restany, Hundertwasser, New York, 2008, p. 50 (c)
- R. Fleck, Kunst und Natur, Vienna, 2016, p. 55 (c)
- P. Restany, Die Macht der Kunst, Hundertwasser - Der Maler-König mit den fünf Häuten, Cologne, 2018, p. 73 (c)
- The Tel Aviv Museum, 1976, p. 267 (c)
- Supplementary edition no. 2, Copenhagen, 1976, p. 28
- Seibu Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1977, p. 267 (c)
- South African National Gallery, Cape Town / Pretoria Art Museum, 1977, cover (c), p. 267 (c)
- Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro / Museu de Arte, São Paulo / Palácio Itamaraty, Brasilia, 1977, p. 267 (c)
- Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, 1977, p. 267 (c)
- Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 1978, p. 267 (c)
- Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1978, p. 267 (c)
- Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 1980, p. 267 (c)
- Sonja Henies og Niels Onstads Stiftelser Kunstsentret, Høvikodden, 1980, p. 267 (c)
- Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980, p. 315 (c)
- Secession, Vienna, 1981, p. 315 (c)
- Kulturhaus, Graz, 1981, p. 315 (c)
- Helsingin kaupungin taidemuseo, Helsinki, 1981, p. 267 (c)
- Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1983, p. 267 (c)
- Travelling exhibition 1979-1981: Hundertwasser Is Painting (c)
- Mobil Oil Austria AG (ed.), Österreicher die der Welt gehören, Vienna, 1979, p. 95 (c)
- D. Emeis, Des Lebens Ruf heißt Liebe, Freiburg, 1992, cover (c)
- B. Benhamou / E. Brandts / E. Grumbach / M. Marhuenda, Grenzenlos, Paris, 1995, p. 142 (c)
- A. Busse / I. Hintz (ed.), wortstark 10, Braunschweig, 2006, p. 174 (c)
- I. Dallinger-Kulha / M. Huber / M. Kemminger (ed.), Deutsch mit Max 3, Sprachbuch - Teil A und B, Wien, 2015, p. 62 (c)
- Mizue, no. 863, Feb. 1977, Tokyo, p. 66 (c)
- TV Hören und Sehen, no. 15, April 16-22, 2011, Hamburg, p. 32 (c, text by Paul Coelho)
- Postcard, Cicero GmbH, Stuttgart, 1976
- Postcard, Gruener Janura AG, Glarus, 1976 (repr.)
- Hundertwasser Calendar 1977, Cicero GmbH, Stuttgart (January)
- Fine Art Print, Bruckmann Verlag, Munich, 1977 (725 x 610/640 x 525 mm, repr. 1985, 1989, 1992, 1995)
- Art Agenda 1979, Cicero GmbH, Stuttgart
- Postcard calendar 1979, Cicero GmbH, Stuttgart (March)
- Art Agenda, Hundertwasser 1980, Cicero GmbH, Stuttgart
- Invitation card, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980/81
- Invitation card, Foyer of the Kreissparkasse, Heilbronn, 1981
- Invitation card, Galerie Peerlings, Krefeld, 1981
- Invitation card, Secession, Vienna, 1981
- Invitation card, Kulturhaus, Graz, 1981
- Art Calendar, Hundertwasser 1985, B. Wörner, Gerlingen (May)
- Art Calendar, Hundertwasser 1983, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg (June, 31 x 25 cm)
- Art Calendar, 1985, B. Wörner, Gerlingen (June, small)
- Hundertwasser Calendar 1985, B. Wörner, Gerlingen (May)
- Postcard, Joram Harel Management, Vienna, 1988
- Hundertwasser artclou 1989, Caesar International Art, Stuttgart
- Hundertwasser art agenda 1990, Caesar International Art, Stuttgart
- Hundertwasser Art Memo, Caesar International Art, Stuttgart
- Art Calendar 1993, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg (46 x 34 cm, August)
- Hundertwasser Agenda, B. Wörner, Rutesheim, 1993 (cover and inside)
- Hundertwasser Adressbuch, B. Wörner, Rutesheim, 1993
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art and Pocket Art 94, B. Wörner, Rutesheim, 1993
- Art Calendar 1994, B. Wörner, Rutesheim (56 x 49/26 x 23 cm, June)
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art and Pocket Art 95, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Greeting card for Marks and Spencer, Tigerprint Limited, London, 1996 (detail, 168 x 168 mm)
- Postcard, Gruener Janura AG, Glarus, 2001 (repr. 2002)
- Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)
- Calendar: Hundertwasser 2004, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna
- Calendar: Hundertwasser 2004, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2004, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Calendar: 2004 Hundertwasser Jahresplaner, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Art print: Gruener Janura AG, Glarus, 2005
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art Address book, Borer & Wörner, Zug, 2006 (detail)
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art Perpetual Calendar, Borer & Wörner, Zug, 2006 (detail)
- Hundertwasser Calendar 2007, sanofi aventis, Vienna
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2007, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Hundertwasser span-a-year Calendar 2007, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Hundertwasser stripe Calendar 2007, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Calendar, Hundertwasser 2008, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Greeting card with quotation imprint, Bernd Wörner Druckerei und Verlag, Rutesheim, 2008 (c)
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2009, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2010, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser Vertical Wall Calendar Art 2010, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser span-a-year Art Calendar 2010, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2011, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Reproduction on canvas, Wörner, Rutesheim, 2011 (74 x 60 cm, ed. of 900)
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2012, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser 2012 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2013, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Art + Architecture International Calendar, Wörner, Rutesheim, 2013
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2017, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (small size)
- Hundertwasser Agenda 2017, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser notebook, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim, 2016
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2018, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (square size)
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2019, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser Vertical Wall Calendar Art 2020, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser span-a-year Art Calendar 2020, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
This harks back to the time when I painted tables covered by tablecloths from nature - see 53 Tables with Red-and-white-striped Tablecloths in an Osteria, but also is reminiscent of Van Gogh and Schiele, who painted chairs and tables wonderfully. It was on Motuarohia, also called Robertson Island, in Jim Cottier's house, who was a very widely travelled sea captain who hailed from the Isle of Man, where I painted the trunk of a giant Moreton Bay fig from the window. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 589)