Constant Nieuwenhuys-Femme Terrible, 1949

Photographer

Tom Haartsen

La Femme Terrible

1949
Cobra
85,5cm
x 75,6cm
linen
oil paint
Private collection, NL

CID

1006

English title

Terrible Woman

Alternate titles

La Femme Terrible
1949 Archive entry

Signed/dated

Signed Constant, bottom center in black paint. Dated '49, bottom right in black paint

Provenance

1949 Constant
Collection Har Oudejans, NL
2014 Private collection, NL (Christie's Amsterdam)
Tags
Child
Heartache
Love
Mother
Woman

Frame dimensions

88,3 x 78,3 x 3,9 cm
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Fête de la Tristesse, 1949

Photographer

Tom Haartsen

Fête de la tristesse

1949
Cobra
85,0cm
x 110,0cm
linen
oil paint
Collection Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, NL on longterm loan from Rijksdienst voor Cultureel Erfgoed

CID

281

Painted on his birthday July 21st, 1949, this painting captures the heartache Constant experiences after his wife Matie has left him for his friend and colleague Asger Jorn, taking his two daughters Martha and Olga with her.

English title

Feast of Sadness

Alternate titles

Feest der droevenis
2015
Fête de la tristesse
1948

Signed/dated

Signed and dated Constant '49, top center in black

Provenance

1949 Constant
1962 Collection Rijksdienst voor Cultureel Erfgoed | K62384
2002 Collection Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, NL
Tags
Animal
Fantasy creature
Figures
Heartache
Love

Frame dimensions

unknown
Constant Nieuwenhuys-Femme qui a blessé un oiseau avec une feuille morte, 1949

Photographer

Unknown

Femme qui a blessé un oiseau avec une feuille morte

1949
Cobra
110,0cm
x 95,0cm
linen
oil paint
Collection Kunsthalle Emden, Germany. Donation from Otto van de Loo, München

CID

280

English title

Woman Who Injured a Bird with a Dead Leaf

Alternate titles

Femme qui a blessé un oiseau avec une feuille morte
1949
Femme pleurante, blessé par une feuille morte
1986

Signed/dated

Signed and dated Constant '49, top left in brown paint on blue grey fond

Provenance

1949 Constant
Collection Henri Lazard, Lausanne, CH
Collection Otto van de Loo, Munich, DE
Collection Kunsthalle Emden (donation Otto van de Loo, Munich, DE)
Tags
Animal
Bird
Black
Blue
Brown
Grey
Heartache
Love
Metaphor
People
Red
White
Woman

Frame dimensions

unknown