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QATAR
Island of Porquerolles, 1980
Painted in Doha, January 7, 1980 - Lankan Finolhu, Maledives, January 16, 1980 - island of Porquerolles, August, 1980
480 mm x 500 mm
Mixed media: white acrylic priming and modelling paste heaps on plywood, finished with watercolour, acrylic, lacquer, gold and tinfoil
- World Travelling Museum Exhibition:
- Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1980/81
- Secession, Vienna, 1981
- Kulturhaus, Graz
- Neue Berliner Galerie, East Berlin, 1981
- Helsingin kaupungin taidemuseo, Helsinki, 1981
- Sala Dalles, Bucharest, 1981/82
- Schipka Gallery, Sofia, 1982
- Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1983
- City Art Gallery, York, 1983
- City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 1983
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 623/624 (and c)
- Neue Berliner Galerie, East Berlin, 1981, p. 31
- Print documentation: Human Environment, WFUNA, New York, 1982 (b)
- Art Calendar, Hundertwasser 1982, B. Wörner, Gerlingen (February, reversed sides)
- Art Print, United Nations, Human Environment, WFUNA (World Federation of United Nations Associations), New York, 1982 (Offset-print in 6 colours with metal imprints in 2 colours, edition of 1500) (28 x 21,5 cm/17,5 x 18,3)
- First day cover, United Nations, Human Environment, WFUNA, New York, March 19, 1982
- Art Calendar 1993, B. Wörner, Rutesheim (56 x 49/26 x 23 cm, November)
- Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
Back in Arabia, a guest of Gaafer Mohammed Abdel Rahim, who had moved there from the Sudan, and the son of the Emir of Qatar, I felt so good, as if I had returned to a home I was intimately familiar with. I told the Emir's son how beneficial a grass roof could be in the desert, if, for instance, one could water gardens on one's own roof with grey water (used water and bathwater). Then it would be cool and no air-conditioning would be needed. Besides, the shady park overhead can be laid out with beautiful stones. I was very surprised to read later in the newspaper that the son of the Emir of Qatar had ordered very realistic hollow plastic boulders from Switzerland to put on his roof. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 624)