Image

Constant Nieuwenhuys-Femmes Damnées, 1939

Photographer

Tom Haartsen

Femmes damnées

1939
21,8cm
x 28,0cm
paper
pencil
watercolour
Collection ProWinko, NL

CID

1351

Circa 1939.
In 1939/1940 Constant drew 8 illustrations for the poems Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire, 1857.
Both the drawings Le revenant  (The Ghost) and Femmes damnées (Delphine et Hippolyte) are from Fleurs du Mal.

English title

Damned Women

Signed/dated

Signed Constant, bottom right in ink. Titled Femmes damnées, bottom right in ink..

Provenance

Constant
Collection Kroon-Scherpel
1998 Auke van der Werff (Sotheby's, Amsterdam)
2006 Collection ProWinko, NL
Tags
Literature
Nude
People
Woman

Frame dimensions

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