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Friedensreich
H u n d e r t wa s s e r

Graphic Works

P u c k e r G a lle ry
Boston
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Island of Lost Desire, 1977-1978 Cover:

Japanese woodcut in 19 colors
Format 225 x 185 mm, image 180 x 150 mm
Edition 366/999, hand signed and numbered
Originally included with the book The Woodcut
Works of Hundertwasser, 1960-1975
HWG70, 755A (SM)
Slow Travel Under the Sun, La Barca – Regentag, 1969
Silk screen in 10 colors with metal imprints in 7 colors
Format 760 x 560 mm, image 670 x 425 mm
Edition D/139/251, hand signed and numbered
HWG40, 683

Additional editions of specific works may be available.

Please contact the Gallery for a complete list of works and images.
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Exodus into Space, 1971-72

Silk screen in 30 colors, including 2 phosphorescent, with metal imprints in 4 colors
Format 500 x 670 mm, image 415 x 592 mm
Edition 2,019/3,000, stamp signed, titled, and numbered
Issued as sheet 4 of 10 in the Look at it on a Rainy Day portfolio
HWG47, 650A
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Waiting Houses, 1969

Japanese woodcut, approximately 20 colors
Format 320 x 415 mm, image 299 x 395 mm
Edition 2/200, hand signed and numbered
Issued as part of the Nana Hyaku Mizu portfolio in 1973.
HWG37, 637A (DH)
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Little Palace of Illness, 1970

Japanese woodcut, approximately 20 colors
Format 365 x 260 mm, image 354 x 240 mm
Edition 156/200, hand signed and numbered
Issued as part of the Nana Hyaku Mizu portfolio in 1973.
HWG38, 487A
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Columbus Rainy Day in India, 1971-72

Silk screen in 17 colors with metal imprints in 5 colors
Format 500 x 670 mm, image 455 x 590 mm
Edition 2,019/3,000, stamp signed, titled, and numbered
Issued as sheet 6 of 10 in the Look at it on a Rainy Day portfolio
HWG49, 687A
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The Houses are Hanging Underneath the Meadows, 1971-72

Silk screen in 19 colors (varnish over red) with metal imprints in 3 colors variously aligned blind screen over green
Format 500 x 670 mm, image 410 x 600 mm
Edition 2,019/3,000, stamp signed, titled, numbered and hand signed in black ink and numbered as edition 202/300 with
the artist’s stamp in red
Issued as sheet 9 of 10 in the Look at it on a Rainy Day portfolio
HWG52, 699A
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Pacific Steamer, 1985

Japanese woodcut in 30 colors
Format 570 x 420 mm, image 250 x 390 mm
Edition 991/999, hand signed and numbered
HWG85, 686A (AR)
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Night Train, 1978

Silk screen in 10 colors with metal imprints in 2 or 3 colors respectively, 5 color variants
Format 555 x 530 mm, image 515 x 730 mm
Edition 211/285, hand signed and numbered, color variation 4
HWG72, 220A (DK)
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Regentag on Waves of Love, 1971-72

Silk screen in 23 colors with metal imprints in 3 colors and an application of ground glass
Format 500 x 670 mm, image 405 x 598 mm
Edition 2,019/3,000, stamp signed, titled, and numbered
Issued as sheet 8 of 10 in the Look at it on a Rainy Day portfolio
HWG51, 697A
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A Rainy Day on the Regantag, 1971-72

Silk screen in16 colors with metal imprints in 5 colors on metallic cardboard
Format 475 x 670 mm, image 445 x 585 mm
Edition 2,019/3,000, stamp signed, titled, and numbered
Issued as sheet 5 of 10 in the Look at it on a Rainy Day portfolio
HWG48, 676A
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Spectacles in the Small Face, 1968

Japanese woodcut, approximately 20 colors
Format 350 x 430 mm, image 330 x 408 mm
Edition 52/200, hand signed and numbered
Issued as part of the Nana Hyaku Mizu portfolio in 1973.
HWG33, 563A (DH)
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Good morning city, 1969-70

silk screen in 10 colors with metal imprints in 8 colors
format 850 x 555 mm, image 765 x 470 mm
initial edition 6,391/10,000, hand signed and numbered
hwG41a, 686
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Look at it on a Rainy Day (Regentag Portfolio), 1971-72

Complete boxed set of 10 prints published by Ars Viva, Zurich. Includes each full sheet, within
the original embossed wooden box, with title, justification, and list of contents on the inside cover,
hand signed in green chalk and numbered in pink chalk.
Edition 2019/3000
box size: 21.5 x 28.5 x 1.5”
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Eyebalance Number Five, 1971-72

Silk screen in 26 colors, varnished in parts, with metal imprints in four colors
Format 500 x 670 mm, image 466 x 580 mm
Edition 2,019/3,000, stamp signed, titled, and numbered
Issued as sheet 1 of 10 in the Look at it on a Rainy Day portfolio
HWG44, 368A
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Street for Survivors, 1971-72

silk screen in 17 colors, including 1 phosphorescent and 1 copper, with metal imprints in 3 colors on blue-grey paper
format 670 x 500 mm, image 565 x 410 mm
edition 2,019/3,000, stamp signed, titled, and numbered
issued as sheet 2 of 10 in the look at it on a rainy day portfolio
hwG45, 553A
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It Hurts to Wait with Love if Love is Somewhere Else, 1971-72

Silk screen in 29 colors, including 2 phosphorescent, with metal imprints in 6 colors, variously aligned blind screen over the cupolas
Format 500 x 670 mm, image 365 x 605 mm
Edition 2,019/3,000, stamp signed, titled, and numbered
Issued as sheet 3 of 10 in the Look at it on a Rainy Day portfolio
HWG46, 630A
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Irinaland Over the Balkans, 1971-72

silk screen in 31 colors, including 2 phosphorescent, with metal imprints in 5 colors
format 490 x 670 mm, image 415 x 588 mm
edition 2,019/3,000, stamp signed, titled, and numbered
issued as sheet 7 of 10 in the look at it on a rainy day portfolio
hwG50, 691A
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Crusade of the Crossroaders, 1971-72

silk screen in 17 colors with metal imprints in 7 colors and an application of ground glass, on tarred brown paper
format 500 x 670 mm, image 390 x 588 mm
edition 2,019/3,000, stamp signed, titled, and numbered
issued as sheet 10 of 10 in the look at it on a rainy day portfolio
hwG53, 701A
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Town in Town, 1979

Format 558 x 760, image 445 x 645
Silk screen in 13 colors with metal imprints in 3 colors, 58 color variants, 2 paper variants
Edition 129/350, gray paper, hand signed and numbered
HWG78, 801 (RC)
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10002 Nights Homo Humus Come Va How Do You Do, 1984

Mixed Media: photolithograph from zinc in 4 colors, silkscreen in 7 colors with metal imprints in 10 colors
Format 690 x 500 mm, image 640 x 430 mm
Edition 5,742/10,002, hand signed and numbered
HWG83, 860
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Snail Houses with Black Smoke, 1996

Japanese woodcut in 15 colors
Format 570 x 425 mm, image 510 x 365 mm
Edition 9/200, hand signed and numbered
HWG111, 882A
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Fall in Cloud, Fall in Fog, Fall Out, 1973

Three-dimensional object in silk screen and metallic embossing on 5 Plexiglas panels
12 x 14.5 x 2”
Edition 128/999, hand signed, dated, and numbered on verso
HWG780
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Kingdom of the Toro, 1968

Silk screen in 9 colors with gold and silver imprints
Format 520 x 690 mm, image 420 x 600 mm
Edition 39/170, signed in India ink
HWG35, 675
Green Power, 1972
Silk screen in 21 colors, including 2 phosphorescent, with metal imprints in 2 colors
Format 835 x 635 mm, image 760 x 542 mm
Edition 69/249, signed and numbered with green winter stamp
HWG57, 690
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Window Out of the Pond, 1978

Color etching and aquatint in various colors from 4 copper plates on Arches paper
Format 645 x 500 mm, image 400 x 330 mm
Edition of 280, XXXXVIII proofs, signed and numbered as XXX in India ink
HWG73, 769
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2 to 13 Windows Afloat, 1979

Japanese woodcut in 29 colors
Format 421 x 570 mm, image 370 x 517 mm
Edition 69/200, signed in India ink
HWG76, 764A
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Rain Drop Counter, 1981

Mixed media: lithograph in 3 colors, silk screen in 13 colors with metal imprints in 3 colors
Format 560 x 760 mm, image 560 x 760 mm
Edition 218/247, signed and numbered in India ink
HWG80, 819
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Biography
Friedensreich
H u n d e r t wa s s e r

Hundertwasser, 1985
© 2014 Hundertwasser
Archive, Vienna
Photo: Gerhard Krömer

F
riedensreich Regentag Hundertwasser (which printed sheet. The editions of his graphic work often

means “Peace-Realm-Rainy-Day-Hundred- comprise several color versions and variants, which

Water”) was born Friedrich Stowasser in 1928 are numbered throughout the entire edition, rather than

in Vienna and is well known for his organic, vivid separately. He sought to make unique pieces within

style in painting, printmaking, and architecture. He the art of the graphic, thereby going beyond machine

was schooled at Montessori and had brief formal art production. Hundertwasser’s work gives equal attention

training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His to form, color, and line and makes strong statements

education continued in his extensive travels over the about humanitarianism and environmentalism. His

next fifty years. Hundertwasser created artwork using art challenges our intellect, awakens our senses, and

many graphic techniques, among them lithograph, silk evokes the world of dreams. A complete catalogue

screen, etching, and woodcut. He valued openness in raisonné was published in 2001, a year after the art-

terms of technique, dates, and editions and took care ist’s death, and his artwork continues to be exhibited

to provide detailed information about each work on the internationally.

Credits:
Design: Leslie Anne Feagley | Editor: Destiny M. Barletta | Photography: John Devenport
© 2017, Pucker Gallery | Printed in the USA by Modern Postcard
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Friedensreich
H u n d e r t wa s s e r

Pu cker G allery
240 Newbury Street, 3rd floor Graphic Works
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: 617.267.9473
E-mail: contactus@puckergallery.com
Gallery Ho urs :
Monday through Saturday 10:00 am to 5:30 pm Dates:
Sunday 10:30 am to 5:00 pm
25 March through 23 April 2017
Please visit www.puckergallery.com to view current and past
exhibition catalogues, read artist biographies, and subscribe to the
Artwork of the Week e-mail list. O penin g R eception
We offer one free hour of validated parking at the 200 Newbury 25 March 2017
Street Garage. The garage driving entrance is located on Exeter Street 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
between Newbury and Boylston Streets. The nearest MBTA stops are
Hynes Convention Center or Copley Station on the Green Line.
The public is invited to attend.
Pucker Gallery is a member of the Boston Art Dealers Association
and the New England Appraisers Association.

Yellow Last Will, 1971

Silk screen in 22 colors over silver foil on cardboard with variously aligned blind screen
Format and image 525 x 745 mm
Edition 167/475, hand signed and numbered
HWG43, 696A (DH)