Image
Photographer
Tom Haartsen
Drawn on the inside of Bibliothèque de Cobra | Constant, ca 1950.
Work
Animaux
1949
85.2cm x 70.5cm
linen, oil paint
Collection ABN AMRO on loan to Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL
CID: 632
Après nous la Liberté
1949
139.5cm x 107.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Tate Modern London, UK
CID: 278
This work was painted in Amsterdam and its original title was ‘A Nous la Liberté'. In a letter to the curator of the Tate Modern, dated 6 February 1988 Constant recalled the ‘general mood' from which the painting emerged and explained why the title was later changed:
After the five years of the German Occupation, during which hardly any work of other painters was to be seen, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam organised a large show of contemporary Dutch art, entitled ‘Kunst in vryheid' (Art in freedom).
Barricade
1949
372.0cm x 300.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
CID: 285
This huge painting "Barricade" [372 × 300 cm] was made in 1949 for the exhibition International Exhibition of Experimental Art' at Stedelik Museum Amsterdam.
Boot met vliegende figuur
1949
45.0cm x 54.1cm
chalk, gouache, graphite, ink, paper
Collection Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, NL
CID: 1279
Bord/Vrouw
1949
5.0cm x 19.0cm x 19.0cm
ceramic
Collection Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
CID: 2305
Donated to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam by Hans Sonnenberg in 2016.
De redenaar
1949
64.3cm x 80.4cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL
CID: 638
Fauna
1949
74.9cm x 85.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL
CID: 279
