Hundertwasser's comment on the work

On Tuberua Island [Vorsicht: vorhin hieß es Tuberuan!] these silver-and-black striped snakes live, in the water and on land; they also slither along the walls in the bedrooms. You can play with them as if they were pets. Their bite is fatal, but they don't bite. Interesting: not making use of the weapon one has. (from: Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Vol. 2, Taschen, Cologne, 2002, p. 695)

956
DADAKULACI - LATICAUDA COLUBRINA
Giant Banded Sea Krait

Watercolour
Kaurinui, 1994
Painted at Toberua Island - Auckland, September - October 1994 - Toberua, September 20, 1994 - Auckland, International Airport, September 27, 1994 - finished Kaurinui, October 13, 1994
417 mm x 577 mm
Watercolour on primed paper; silver leaf applied by Ralf Wittig, Zwettl, 1995
  • Städtisches Museum Braunschweig, 1996
  • KunstHausWien, Vienna, since February, 1998
  • Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, 2012
  • A. C. Fürst, Hundertwasser 1928-2000, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 2002, Vol. II, p. 695 (c)
  • B. Stieff, Hundertwasser für Kinder, Munich, 2007, p. 33 (c)
  • F. Hundertwasser / P. Restany, Hundertwasser, New York, 2008, p. 71 (c)
  • Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, 2012, p. 107 (c)
  • Postcard, Gruener Janura AG, Glarus, 2001 (repr. 2002) and repr. 2017 by Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim
  • 2004 Hundertwasser Diary Jahrbuch, Borer & Wörner, Zug
  • Hundertwasser Art Calendar 2007, Borer & Wörner, Zug
  • Calendar, Hundertwasser Jahrbuch 2008, Borer & Wörner, Zug
  • Hundertwasser Diary 2011, Wörner, Rutesheim
  • Calendar, Hundertwasser Art 2017, Wörner Verlag, Rutesheim (small size)