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HUNDERTWASSER (1928 - 2000)
Yellow Last Will (Testament in Gelb)   (K.43) screenprint in 22 colors over silver foil on cardboard, with variously aligned blind screens hand signed in ink lower right numbered in ink from the edition of 475 total edition of 475 with original publisher's certificate of authenticity affixed to verso image size 20 5/8" x 29 3/8" (52.5 x 74.5 cm.) board size 20 5/8" x 29 3/8" (52.5 x 74.5 cm.) Published by Schünemann Verlag, Bremen Printed by Dietz Offizin, Lengmoos, Bavaria, in cooperation with Gunter Dietz Reference:    Koschatzky, "Hundertwasser: The Complete Graphic Work 1951-1986", Number 43, page 106-107
Günter Dietz, the German fine-arts printer, saw Hundertwasser's success with serigraphs as a challenge to his skills... When in 1970 Hundertwasser moved into Dietz's house at Lengmoos, a new chapter began in the development of his graphic art. He threw himself into the work with an intense enthusiasm most clearly manifested in a dedication to Dietz, "The screen print helps me to enter a paradise which cannot be reached by means of a painter's brush."..."Testament im Mohn" had just been finished. Extensively adapted by the artist and transferred to an underlying silver foil, it became the first Hundertwasser original to be produced by the Dietz process. The metallic cupolas were recessed, treated with variously aligned relief grids, and in part overprinted with a glaze, resulting in an iridescent effect. Work on the print, carried out by a Bremen publisher, was completed in December, 1971. Hundertwasser continued his wholehearted pursuit of experimenting with all possible colors, materials, pigments and exploiting them for his artistic purposes.      -Walter Koschatzky, "Hundertwasser: The Complete Graphic Work 1951-1986"	publisher's certificate of authenticity

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