Friedensreich Hundertwasser - Modern & Contemporary Editions New York Sunday, November 21, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Aberbach Gallery, New York 1978

  • Literature

    A.C. Fürst 125A, p. 935

  • Catalogue Essay

    Hundertwasser had sixty-nine unique tapestries made by a few weavers. When transforming his works into a tapestry, his main concern was to do this freehand, without a template, so the weaver was open to artistic interpretation and "life could be breathed into the object" and not be just a copy of the model.
    In this painting he set out to prove that "the dwelling cells in high-rises can be individually varied and humane and positive...so that a person can already see where he lives from the outside" - Friedensreich Hundertwasser and the Fight Against the Straight Line 

Property from a Private Collector, Connecticut

71

Skyscraper and Villiage Church

1976
Unique hand-woven wool tapestry in colors,
102 1/2 x 69 in. (260.4 x 175.3 cm)
signed with initials `HR' in black ink on a label affixed to the reverse, woven by Rafael Morquecho at Gobelinos Riedl, Tlaquepaque, Mexico, the colors slightly attenuated, soiling, otherwise in very good condition.

Estimate
$15,000 - 25,000 

Sold for $45,000

Modern & Contemporary Editions

21 Nov 2010
New York