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DISGUISED TREE
VERKLEIDETER BAUM
L'ARBRE TRAVESTI
Hahnsäge, 1987
Painted at Seychelles, 1983 - Bird Island, August 27 - Mahe, August 29, 1983 (24 x 83) - Hahnsäge, July 10 and 12, 1987 - signed Hahnsäge, December 16, 1987
860 mm x 860 mm
Mixed media: watercolour, egg tempera, acrylic, oil and lacquer on paper, glued on canvas/linen with cellulose glue and PV; white priming (acrylic-based); chassis cross made by Hundertwasser in New Zealand about 1982-83; gold and silver leaf applied by Ralf Wittig, Zwettl; glued-on watercolour bottom right: 590 x 430 mm
Hundertwasser Art Centre, Whangarei
- Travelling exhibition 1989:
- Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo
- Iwaki City Art Museum
- Ohara Museum of Art
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- KunstHausWien, Vienna, since April 1991
- ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj, Denmark, 2014
- Hundertwasser Art Centre, Whangarei, since Feb. 2022
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, pp. 659, 661 (c)
- F. Hundertwasser / P. Restany, Hundertwasser, New York, 2008, p. 231 (c)
- Hundertwasser, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj, 2014, p. 82 (c)
- Broschure: Kunstwerk, Die Hundertwasser Ausgabe der Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, n.p., 1989, p. 20 (artist's description, c)
- U. Ewald-Spiller / Ch. Fabritz / M. Geiger et al., deutsch ideen 8, Braunschweig, 2012, p. 146 (c) and digital version
- U. Sauter et al., deutsch ideen 4, Braunschweig, 2013, p. 146 (c)
- Bon Appétit, Oct. 1995, Los Angeles, p. 32 (c)
- Postcard, Joram Harel Management, Vienna, 1988
- Hundertwasser art agenda 1990, caesar Art International, Stuttgart
- Gift-tag, 1991, Gruener Janura AG, Glarus (detail)
- Poster, Museums Betriebs Ges.mbH, Vienna, 1991 (59 x 40,7 cm, detail)
- Art Calendar 1992: Hundertwasser im KunstHausWien, Brönner Verlag, Frankfurt (58 x 48 cm, November)
- Hundertwasser Art Calendar 1995, Bohrer & Wörner, Zug (56 x 49 cm, June)
- Hundertwasser Agenda 1995, Bohrer & Wörner, Zug
- Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)
- Giclée art print, ars mundi, Hanover, 2006
- Hundertwasser 2012 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2013, Wörner, Rutesheim (small size)
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2013, teNeues, Kempen
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2014, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2017, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (square size)
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
A painting begun on the Seychelle Islands. I was a guest of a friend of Peter Schamoni's, beneath huge palm trees and with giant turtles about. When the pictures I have painted in the tropics, in Senegal, Uganda, the Sudan, the Amazon, India, Tahiti, on the Maldives, Fiji, in the Antilles, in Thailand, the Philippines, in Qatar and on Sri Lanka, are all counted up, there are quite a number of them. The numbers on the painting designate elements of the painting which I wanted to use in a subsequent graphic edition as interchangeable elements for variation. Not only the colours, the forms were also to be interchangeable, resulting in easily a million variations, of which the ten thousand best could then be printed.
(see also 860) (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 659)