Hundertwasser's comment on the work

I travelled for a fortnight with a guide on a barge from Manaus on the watery maze of the Rio Negro and Rio Branco, including jungle stretches. I saw no crocodiles, no snakes, but I swam amongst piranhas, which don't do anything if you're not bleeding or have something red with you. The river water was drinking water. Totally clean. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 599)

771
RIO NEGRO

Mixed media
Vienna, 1977
Painted in Rio Negro, Amazonas, August 1977 - Vienna, November 1977
530 mm x 433 mm
Mixed media: watercolour, oil, lacquer and Indian ink on primed paper, glued on linen with PV and wallpaper glue, finished with oil and lacquer
  • World Travelling Museum Exhibition:
  • Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1978
  • Mücsarnok, Budapest, 1978
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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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  • Russeck Gallery, Palm Beach, 2000
  • Russeck Gallery, San Francisco, 2001
  • Russeck Gallery, New York, 2001
  • Art Fair, Basel, 1979
  • FIAC, Paris, 1980
  • H. Brockstedt (ed.), Ao Tea Roa, Hamburg, 1979 (c)
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 598/599 (and c)
  • Regentag-Wassergläser für das Leben, Vienna, 2011, p. 12 (c, German edition)
  • Travelling exhibition 1979-1981: Hundertwasser Is Painting (c)
  • Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980, p. 329 (c)
  • Secession, Vienna, 1981, p. 329 (c)
  • Kulturhaus, Graz, 1981, p. 329 (c)
  • Art Agenda: Hundertwasser 1979, Cicero GmbH, Stuttgart
  • Art Calendar: Hundertwasser 1979, Cicero GmbH, Stuttgart (small size, January)
  • Art Calendar: Hundertwasser 1979, Cicero GmbH, Stuttgart (big size, August)
  • Art Calendar: Hundertwasser 1979, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg (May)
  • Exhibition poster, Aberbach Fine Art, New York, 1979 (detail)
  • Invitation card, Aberbach Fine Art, New York, 1979 (detail)
  • Exhibition poster, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, 1980 (detail)
  • Invitation card, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, 1980 (detail)
  • Exhibition poster, Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg, 1980 (detail)
  • Invitation card, Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg, 1980 (detail)
  • Art Agenda: Hundertwasser 1980, Cicero GmbH, Stuttgart
  • Invitation card, Galerie Würthle, Vienna, 1981 (detail)
  • Art Calendar: Hundertwasser 1982, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg
  • Hundertwasser artclou 1989, caesar International Art, Stuttgart
  • Hundertwasser artclou 1991, caesar International Art, Stuttgart
  • Hundertwasser Kalender 1992, Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg (April)
  • Hundertwasser Pocket Art and Pocket Art 94, B. Wörner, Rutesheim, 1993
  • Hundertwasser Diary 2013, Wörner, Rutesheim
  • Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2013, Wörner, Rutesheim
  • Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2014, Wörner, Rutesheim (small size)
  • Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2014, Wörner, Rutesheim
  • Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2019, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (square size)
  • Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2020, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim