Image

Constant Nieuwenhuys-De brand, 1987

Photographer

Tom Haartsen

L'incendie [II]

1987
80,0cm
x 83,0cm
linen
oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant, NL

CID

16

After his good friend and lover, Adèle van Rijckevorsel (1921-2017), asks him how he would paint his painting L'Incendie, 1950, now, Constant paints it again this time in a more coloristic way.

English title

The Fire

Alternate titles

De brand [II]
1987
L'incendie
1995

Signed/dated

Signed and dated Constant '86 '87 bottom right in brown paint on brown fond

Provenance

Constant
2005 Collection Trudy Nieuwenhuys-van der Horst
2012 Collection Fondation Constant, NL
Tags
Building
Destruction
Disaster
Human disaster
Suffering
Woman

Frame dimensions

96 x 99 x 6 cm