Image

Constant Nieuwenhuys-Lautréamont, ca 1980

Photographer

Tom Haartsen

Lautréamont

1979
50,0cm
x 35,7cm
watercolour
Collection Fondation Constant, NL

CID

193

Circa 1979
Comte de Lautréamont is pseudonym for Isidore Lucien Ducasse (Montevideo, Urugay), 04 April 1846 to 24 November 1870. He was a French author and poet and an important forerunner of Surrealism. In 1868 he wrote Les Chants de Maldoror (a poetic novel).

Signed/dated

Titled 'Lautréamont', bottom right in sanguine crayon. Signed Constant, bottom right in brown watercolor

Provenance

Constant
2005 Collection Fondation Constant
Tags
Art
Literature
Man
Poet
Poetry
Portrait

Frame dimensions

74,2 x 60,1 x 2,8 cm