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WATER FIRE
WATER FIRE
autrefois: LE FEU
Venice, 1991
Painted on the aeroplane Sydney - Bangkok, June 5, 1982, Chiang Mai, June 8, 1982: small watercolour 43 x 68 cm, glued on bottom right, Venice, Giardino Eden, February 18, 1987 - finished January 12, 1991
1020 mm x 700 mm
Mixed media: watercolour, pencil, egg tempera, acrylic, oil, gold and silver leaf on paper with white acrylic priming, glued on canvas with wallpaper glue and PV
KunstHausWien, Vienna
- Landau Fine Art, Montreal 1994
- Städtisches Museum Braunschweig, 1996
- Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, 1998
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- Travelling exhibition 1998/99:
- Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1998
- Museum "EKi", Kyoto, 1998
- Sakura City Museum of Art, Chiba, 1998/99
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- KunstHausWien, Vienna, 2001 - mid-November 2016
- Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, 2012
- Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, 2016/17
- KunstHausWien, Vienna, since April 11, 2017
- Galerie am Lindenplatz, Schaan, 1996
- W. Schmied, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2000, Vol. I, pp. 202/203 (and c)
- Hundertwasser Portfolio, Cologne, 2001, inside (c, b) and reverse (c)
- A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, p. 680 (c)
- Regentag-Wassergläser für das Leben, Vienna, 2011, p. 22 (c, German edition)
- Landau Fine Art, Montreal, 1994, p. 39 (c)
- Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, 1998, p. 135 (c)
- Travelling exhibition 1998/99: Japan, p. 71 (c)
- Leaflet, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1998 (c)
- Leaflet, Museum "EKi", Kyoto, 1998 (c)
- Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, 2012, p. 97 (c)
- Leaflet, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, 2012 (c)
- Hundertwasser, The Green City, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, 2016, pp. 72 (and c), 253
- Nordkurier, Dec. 28, 2002 (b)
- Uckermark Kurier, Dec. 28, 2002 (b)
- Hundertwasser Agenda, B. Wörner, Rutesheim, 1993
- Hundertwasser Adressbuch, B. Wörner, Rutesheim, 1993
- Hundertwasser Art Calendar 1995, Borer & Wörner, Zug (26 x 23 cm, October)
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art and Pocket Art 95, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Exhibition poster, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1998 (c)
- Poster for shutter boxes, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1998 (c)
- Ticket, Sakura City Museum of Art, Chiba, 1998/99 (c)
- Hundertwasser 2004 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2004, Borer & Wörner, Zug
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2011, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser Pocket Notes, Wörner, Rutesheim, 2011
- Hundertwasser Pocket Art 2012, Wörner, Rutesheim
- Hundertwasser 2012 Calendar, Taschen, Cologne (and reprints)
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2017, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
- Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2019, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (small size)
Hundertwasser's comment on the work
Begun in a high-rise in Bangkok; I just turned the water into fire and the fire into water. Burning water is put out with fire. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 680)