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Constant Nieuwenhuys-Femme qui a blessé un oiseau avec une feuille morte, 1949

Photographer

Unknown

Femme qui a blessé un oiseau avec une feuille morte

1949
110,0cm
x 95,0cm
linen
oil paint
Collection Kunsthalle Emden, Germany. Donation from Otto van de Loo, München

CID

280

In May 1949, Constand and his family visit Asger Jorn on the Danish island Bornholm. A personal tragedy takes place when Constant's wife, Matie, leaves him for Jorn. She takes their two daughters Martha and Olga and leaves their only son, Victor, with Constant. 

Constant processes his heartache through his art: in Femme qui a blessé un oiseau avec une feuille morte, the bird represents himself and Jorn is depicted as a dead leaf.

English title

Woman Who Injured a Bird with a Dead Leaf

Alternate titles

Femme qui a blessé un oiseau avec une feuille morte
1949
Femme pleurante, blessé par une feuille morte
1986

Signed/dated

Signed and dated Constant '49, top left in brown paint on blue grey fond

Provenance

1949 Constant
Collection Henri Lazard, Lausanne, CH
Collection Otto van de Loo, Munich, DE
Collection Kunsthalle Emden (donation Otto van de Loo, Munich, DE)
Tags
Animal
Bird
Black
Blue
Brown
Grey
Heartache
Love
Metaphor
People
Red
White
Woman

Frame dimensions

unknown