Hundertwasser's "Two clouds raining seven colors" in black and grey

 

Jean Marie van Staveren

  1946 - PRESENT (biography)

1976  

intaglio 

13 1/2 x 23 5/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

13 of 30  

titled on verso; dated after the signature 

 

ivory wove paper 

published 

 

14240 

$500.00 

A 1976 monochromatic interpretation of Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s color woodcut executed ca. 1972. Jean-Marie van Staveren uses aquatint and sparsely etched linework to create a soft, minimalist version of the German artist’s depiction of rain clouds releasing a deluge. Between 1972 and 1975 Hundertwasser created a portfolio of woodcuts titled Midori No Nimida, published by Gruena Janura AG. He worked with master Japanese carvers and printmakers to create five color woodcuts with foil embossing after his own selected paintings; “Two Clouds Raining Seven Colors” was done after his 1961 painting “Two Clouds With Feet Breeding Seven Colors.”