Copy of La Mère Noël

Infringement on copyrights. Watercolor on paper, no date, signed bottom right in blue. We have no reasons to believe this work was made by Constant (1920-2005). The work is a copy of Constant's watercolor La Mère Noël, 1983. The work was brought onto the market in 2004 by a doctor from Liege, who visited Constant's studio a year before. He received the book L'Atelier d'Amsterdam, in which the original work is published. Eventually Constant asked him to leave because he was taking photo's of works of art without permission. The work keeps resurfacing online and is offered to modern art dealers to this day. Pictures the doctor took that day in the studio are used to prove authenticity of the works.

Image

2012 Watercolor on paper, no date

Year created

1983

Year discovered

2012
Technique

Category

Copyright Infringement