10002 NIGHTS HOMO HUMUS COME VA HOW DO YOU DO, 1984
10002 NIGHTS HOMO HUMUS COME VA HOW DO YOU DO, 1984 10002 NIGHTS HOMO HUMUS COME VA HOW DO YOU DO, 1984 10002 NIGHTS HOMO HUMUS COME VA HOW DO YOU DO, 1984 10002 NIGHTS HOMO HUMUS COME VA HOW DO YOU DO, 1984

10002 NIGHTS HOMO HUMUS COME VA HOW DO YOU DO, 1984

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Hundertwasser's comment on the work

These signing days are not included in the days of work indicated on the reverse side. To give his fingers and spirit a break, Hundertwasser interrupted the signing once he reached a significant stage in the numbering and went with Alberto to have a cup of coffee in the arcade café Bella Venezia. A bottle of sparkling wine was kept on ice for this occasion, too, but remained unopened.

Hundertwasser applied the date stamp and signed with home-made india ink, which he obtained using liquid soot which dripped from his stovepipe. He used a rubber stamp to correct the printed number 10001 to 10002 and a Japanese stamp with an inkan, the Japanese ink pad.

The sheets were stacked in tens, and 50 formed a row of 5 stacks of 10 on a long table in a separate room, to facilitate the signing and stamping. Sets of ten sheets were then fanned out and carried back to the printshop to dry the soot-ink signature and the Japanese stamp by laying them on drying shelves. Alberto lent a hand in this. (from: brochure on 860 Homo Humus come va, Die Galerie, Offenbach on the Main, 1984)

This was a strenuous effort which can hardly be imagined: ten thousand originals in one edition. Just signing them all took eighteen days in the course of two months. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 867)

Price:€ 1.900,-
Size:69,5 x 50 cm
Type:Mixed media print
Miscellaneous:
Die Galerie, Offenbach/Main, 1984
 
Mixed media graphic: photolithograph from zinc in 4 colours, silk screen in 5 colours with metal embossings in 3 colours
 
Quattrifoglio (photolithographs), Claudio Barbato (silk screens), Giuseppe Barbato (metal embossings), Venice, Spinea, 1983
Alberto della Vecchia
 
193 KOPF MIT WEISSEN FENSTERN, 1954 (partly)

Edition of 10002, signed and numbered 1-10002 (by hand)/10002 (by stamp; printed 10001 overstamped 10002); CCLII proofs, signed and numbered I-CCLII/CCLII

10,002 colour variants

Imprint verso: autographed breakdown of the technical procedure and list of colour variants
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Hundertwasser's comment on the work

These signing days are not included in the days of work indicated on the reverse side. To give his fingers and spirit a break, Hundertwasser interrupted the signing once he reached a significant stage in the numbering and went with Alberto to have a cup of coffee in the arcade café Bella Venezia. A bottle of sparkling wine was kept on ice for this occasion, too, but remained unopened.

Hundertwasser applied the date stamp and signed with home-made india ink, which he obtained using liquid soot which dripped from his stovepipe. He used a rubber stamp to correct the printed number 10001 to 10002 and a Japanese stamp with an inkan, the Japanese ink pad.

The sheets were stacked in tens, and 50 formed a row of 5 stacks of 10 on a long table in a separate room, to facilitate the signing and stamping. Sets of ten sheets were then fanned out and carried back to the printshop to dry the soot-ink signature and the Japanese stamp by laying them on drying shelves. Alberto lent a hand in this. (from: brochure on 860 Homo Humus come va, Die Galerie, Offenbach on the Main, 1984)

This was a strenuous effort which can hardly be imagined: ten thousand originals in one edition. Just signing them all took eighteen days in the course of two months. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 867)

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