Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Spiral Wanting to Become a Mountain

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40,000 - 60,000 EUR

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Friedensreich Hundertwasser

1928 - 2000

Spiral Wanting to Become a Mountain

watercolour on wrapping paper, primed with chalk and PV

signed (center right)

48 x 63 cm; 18 ⅞ x 24 ¾ in.

Executed in 1960-1961.

This work is listed on the website of The Hundertwasser Non-Profit Foundation under no. 464.

Galerie Brusberg, Germany

Acquired from the above for the Kawamura family, Japan

Tokyo, Tokyo Gallery, Hundertwasser, 15 May - 30 May 1961

Sakura, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, In Search of Landscape, 13 December 1998 - 28 March 1999

Sakura, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Art, 1990-2025: Art, Architecture, Nature, 8 February 2025 - 31 March 2025, no.33

Exh. Cat., Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hundertwasser, 25 March - 3 May 1964, no. 464, p. 194

Hundertwasser Postcardbook: Lost and Stolen Pictures, Cologne 1995, n.p., illustrated in colour

Andrea Christa Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne 2002, vol. II, no. 464, pp. 407- 408, illustrated in colour

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