Image
Photographer
Jan Zweerts
Circa 1984
Work
De draad van Ariadne
1983
29.8cm x 23.5cm
aquatint, etching
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
CID: 742
Editions: 60 [50 & X]
Étude pour l'interrogatoire
1983
87.0cm x 61.5cm
crayon, paper
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
CID: 225
Het verhoor [II]
1983
20.1cm x 21.2cm
aquatint, etching
Collection Fondation Constant, NL, Collection Kunstmuseum Den Haag, NL
CID: 485
Edition: 20
Constant also painted an oil painting called Interrogation that same year.
Het verhoor [I]
1983
20.7cm x 22.3cm
aquatint, dry point needle, etching
Collection Fondation Constant, NL, Collection Kunstmuseum Den Haag, NL
CID: 147
Edition: 20
Constant also painted an oil painting called Interrogation in that same year.
Kynophilos
1983
31.0cm x 23.6cm
etching
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
CID: 7587
This is a collaborative print by Constant and his friend Ronald Tolman, in whose print studio he worked every now and then in the eighties and nineties. Both of them fervent dog afficionados, they called this print Kynophilos. Derived from the Greek word "kyno" meaning dog, and "philos" meaning lover.
l'Interrogatoire
1983
131.0cm x 141.0cm
linen, oil paint
Private collection, NL
CID: 23
Initially, the prisoner was entirely naked, but Constant's girlfriend at the time said it was too much, so he covered him up partially. In the study Constant made for this painting, the man in entirely naked (see Étude pour l'interrogatoire, 1983).
The background is still reminiscing of the New Babylonian labyrinth with some awkward corners and angles. In stark contrast with the New Babylonian paintings, however, in this painting the people take center stage over the space.
