Collection Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Collection Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
CID
662
Edition: 50
Details
English title
Portfolio: 8 X WAR 8
Alternate titles
8 x La guerre
1951 Archive entry
8 maal de oorlog
1966
Duif-kat
1968
Signed/dated
Signed Constant, center right in the wing of the bird in pencil
Tags
Animal
Bird
Cat
Death
Destruction
War
Frame dimensions
nee
Exhibitions
Documentation
Work
Archive
Image
Photographer
Tom Haartsen
Verstrikte vogel
1948
Cobra
115,0cm
x 50,0cm
linen
oil paint
Collection Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL
CID
647
Details
English title
Entangled Bird
Alternate titles
Ensnared Bird
1966
Uccello in trappola
1966
L'oiseau dans le filet
2001
Signed/dated
Signed and dated Constant '48, bottom right scratched in black
Provenance
1948 Constant
Collection Steef de Vries, Deventer, NL
1989 Karel van Stuijvenberg (Sotheby's London)
2002 Galerie Moderne Silkeborg. Galerie Moderne Amsterdam, G. Lasès (collection Stuijvenberg)
2006 Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL (Galerie Moderne Amsterdam)
Tags
Abstract
Animal
Bird
Black
Red
White
Yellow
Frame dimensions
unknown
Exhibitions
Documentation
Work
Archive
Image
Photographer
Tom Haartsen
Twee vogels
1949
Cobra
81,0cm
x 62,5cm
linen
oil paint
Collection Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL
CID
646
Details
English title
Two Birds
Alternate titles
Twee vogels
1949 Archive entry
Deux oiseaux
2008
Signed/dated
Signed and dated Constant '49, top left from center in white paint
Provenance
1949 Constant
1979 P. van de Kerkhoven
1990 Alain Delon (Christie's, Amsterdam)
2007 Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen (Cornette-de-Saint-Cyr, Paris)
Tags
Animal
Bird
Blue
Flower
Green
Orange
Red
Tree
Yellow
Frame dimensions
Unknown
Exhibitions
Documentation
Work
Archive
Image
Photographer
Tom Haartsen
Adelaar
1953
Towards a synthesis of art
63,8cm
x 66,0cm
linen
oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
CID
497
Details
English title
Eagle
Alternate titles
Adelaar
1953 Archive entry
L'aigle
1992
Signed/dated
Signed and dated Constant '53, top left incised on white fond
Provenance
1953 Constant
2005 Collection Fondation Constant
Tags
Animal
Bird
Black
Blue
Brown
Eagle
White
Frame dimensions
65,3 x 67,6 x 2,8 cm
Exhibitions
Documentation
Work
Archive
Image
Photographer
Tom Haartsen
Die Krähe
1998
Late period
90,0cm
x 95,0cm
linen
oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
CID
491
The Crow is one of the 24 songs from Winterreise by Franz Schubert. It's a tribute to the poet Wilhelm Müller on whose poems Winterreise is based. On the back of the painting is says gewidmet Wilhelm Müller (dedicated to Wilhem Müller).
Details
English title
The Crow
Alternate titles
La Corneille (Hommage à Schubert)
2000
Signed/dated
Signed and dated Constant '98, bottom left in purple paint on purple fond
Tags
Animal
Bird
Man
Music
Frame dimensions
unknown
Exhibitions
Documentation
Work
Archive
Image
Photographer
Unknown
Vogels
1949
Cobra
53,5cm
x 53,8cm
gouache
ink
paper
pencil
Collection Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
CID
487
Details
English title
Birds
Signed/dated
Signed and dated Constant '49, top right in black pencil
