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HUNDERTWASSER Color Woodcut Austrian

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HUNDERTWASSER Color Woodcut Austrian
FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER
Wien 1928 - 2000 (Austrian)
Spiralsun and Moonhouse - The Neighbours – 1967
Original Hand Signed, Dated and Inscribed Color Woodcut

Title : Spiralsun and Moonhouse - The Neighbours.

Technique : Original Japanese Color Woodcut in 20 colors on wove paper with margins.

Paper size : 35,5 X 52,2 cm / 14 X 20.5 inch.

Additional Information : The Color Woodcut is Hand Signed in ink by the artist "Hundertwasser" at the lower middle edge of the image.
The work is also Dated "1967", Numbered "123/200" and Inscribed "Regentag/Rainy Day" by the artist in ink next to the signature.
The woodcut also bears the catalogue raisonne number "551A" written in ink next to the edition number, which indicates that the woodcut is based on an Original Watercolor by Hundertwasser from 1963 with the Catalogue number 551, having also the same title. This Color Woodcut was printed in 1967 by Nakamura, Tokyo.
It was published by Gruener Janura AG, Glarus/Switzerland in 1973 in a limited edition of 200 impressions as part of a portfolio with 7 sheets titled "Nana Hyaku Mizu".
The stamps of the woodcutter and printer are at the lower left edge, which was very important for Hundertwasser, as it is an old Japanese tradition to name them.

Provenance: Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, San Francisco.

Literature : Koschatzky, Walter und Janine Kertesz: Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Das Vollstandige Druck-Graphische Werk 1951-1986, Basel, Orell Fussli Verlag, 1986.
Reference - Catalogue Koschatzky 32.

Condition : Very Good Condition. Minor handling creases at the margins. Fixed to matting at the upper margins.