Constant Nieuwenhuys-Voorstudie Prometheus 1, 1989

Photographer

Tom Haartsen
Voorstudie Prometheus 2
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Prometheus, 1989
Voorstudie Prometheus 1

Voorstudies Prometheus

1989
Late period
54,5cm
x 39,0cm
crayon
paper
watercolour
Collection Fondation Constant, NL

CID

2508

Circa 1989.

English title

Studies Prometheus

Signed/dated

Signed Constant, bottom right in sepia watercolor. Titled Prometheus bottom left outside the frame in pencil

Provenance

Constant
2005 Collection Trudy Nieuwenhuys-van der Horst
2012 Collection Fondation Constant, NL
Tags
Animal
Bird
Black
Eagle
Grey
Man
Myth
People
Sepia
Suffering

Frame dimensions

No
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Adelaar, 1953

Photographer

Tom Haartsen

Adelaar

1953
Towards a synthesis of art
63,8cm
x 66,0cm
linen
oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant, NL

CID

497

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
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Prometheus, 1989

Photographer

Tom Haartsen

Prometheus

1989
Late period
135,0cm
x 96,0cm
linen
oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant, NL

CID

39

Prometheus stole fire from the Gods on the Olympus and gave it to the humans. He was punished for his hubris. Zeus chained him to a rock where an eagle (emblem of Zeus) came and picked out his liver. Every day the liver grew back and the torture would repeat.

Alternate titles

Prométhée
2000

Signed/dated

Signed and dated Constant '89, bottom right in sanguine paint on brown fond
Tags
Animal
Bird
Black
Brown
Eagle
Man
Myth
People
Pink
Red
Suffering

Frame dimensions

150,7 x 112 x 6 cm