Work

Title

Year

Collection

Technique

Period

Nébulose Mécanique [VI]

1958

124.4cm x 118.8cm x 43.0cm

aluminum, metal, metal wire, plexiglass

Collection Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL

CID: 7564

In the summer of 2024 Fondation Constant started consistenly documented works in the archive that had not been located yet. One of these works was Nébulose Mécanique [VI], created in 1958. Shown in several exhibitions and catalogs the sixties, the current location of this sculpture was a mystery.

Photographer

Arjan Verschoor

Nébulose mécanique [V]

1958

36.0cm x 15.0cm x 43.0cm

aluminum, plexiglass, steel

Private collection, BE

CID: 2111

Constant Nieuwenhuys-Nébulose Mécanique V, 1958

Photographer

Tom Haartsen

Nébulose mécanique, liggend

1958

35.0cm x 96.0cm x 73.0cm

brass, plexiglass

Collection Fondation Constant long-term loan to Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL

CID: 171

Constant Nieuwenhuys-Nébulose mécanique, 1958

Photographer

Tom Haartsen

New Babylon Nord

1958

99.9cm x 106.6cm

paper, pencil, watercolour

Collection Kunstmuseum Den Haag, NL

CID: 524

Circa 1958-1961

Constant Nieuwenhuys-New Babylon Noord, ca 1960

Photographer

Tom Haartsen

Rode sector

1958

27.1cm x 96.6cm x 77.5cm

aluminum, copper, ink, iron, oil paint, plexiglass, wood

Collection Kunstmuseum Den Haag, NL

CID: 1181

Constant Nieuwenhuys-Rode sector, 1958-10

Photographer

Tom Haartsen

Schets voor Nébulose mécanique

1958

33.0cm x 21.3cm

ink, paper

Collection Fondation Constant, NL

CID: 53

Constant Nieuwenhuys-Sketch for the Nébulose mécanique, 1958

Photographer

Tom Haartsen

Sector constructie

1958

60.0cm x 280.0cm x 160.0cm

metal

Destroyed

CID: 2573

Designed and made between 1958-1961. Since then exhibited amongst others in 1965 at Haags Gemeentemuseum, "Constant" and in 1966 at XXIIIe Biënnale Venetië, "Constant", Dutch Pavillon.

Destroyed: ca. 1967.
TIFF available of photo.