Paar im Hausgarten. 1980.
Watercolor on wove paper.
Lower right signed, dated and titled. On wove paper. 43 x 61 cm (16.9 x 24 in), the full sheet.

• Lassnig was one of the first artists to focus her art on the female body
• In 1980, the artist was in charge of the Austrian pavilion at the 39th Venice Biennale together with VALIE EXPORT.
• In 1982 and 1997 she participated in the documenta.
• In 2003, Maria Lassnig represented Austria at the 1st Beijing Biennial.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.

Reality may look deformed but isn't because it takes place on another level, the level of feelings. If this often coincides with the level that's seen visually, then it's because my feeling of distance, trained by dealing with external things, has acquired a blind confidence so that external reality – the body everyone sees – ist congruent with felt reality, the reality that's so difficult to define
Maria Lassnig. Zwiegespräche, Vienna 2017, p. 98