Image
Photographer
Tom Haartsen
This huge painting "Barricade" [372 × 300 cm] was made in 1949 for the exhibition International Exhibition of Experimental Art' at Stedelik Museum Amsterdam.
Work
Barricade
1949
372.0cm x 300.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
CID: 285
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
Femme qui a blessé un oiseau avec une feuille morte
1949
110.0cm x 95.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Kunsthalle Emden, Germany. Donation from Otto van de Loo, München
CID: 280
In May 1949, Constand and his family visit Asger Jorn on the Danish island Bornholm. A personal tragedy takes place when Constant's wife, Matie, leaves him for Jorn. She takes their two daughters Martha and Olga and leaves their only son, Victor, with Constant.
Constant processes his heartache through his art: in Femme qui a blessé un oiseau avec une feuille morte, the bird represents himself and Jorn is depicted as a dead leaf.
Femme qui a quitté sa maison pour la lune | Destroyed
1949
105.0cm x 90.0cm
linen, oil paint
Destroyed
CID: 3144
Created after Constant's wife Matie left him for his friend Asger Jorn in 1949, the work did not survive Constant's scrutiny. Asger Jorn is represented by the moon.
Femme-fleur
1949
89.7cm x 74.5cm
linen, oil paint
Collection K. van Stuijvenberg on loan to Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL
CID: 645
Femme-oiseau
1949
120.0cm x 65.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain. Long term loan from Collection Fondation Gandur pour l'Art
CID: 1238
