PLAISIR ET TRISTESSE DE L'AMOUR: 3. Plaisir et tristesse de l'amour
1979
Late period
46,7cm
x 37,3cm
aquatint
etching
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
CID
679
5 color etchings with text by Fanny Kelk. Edition: 10 copies (numbered I-X) & 99 copies (numbered 1-99).
These etchings have been made after a series of five paintings on the same theme done between 1975-78.
Size paper: 71 x 59,5 cm
Details
English title
PLEASURE AND SADNESS OF LOVE: 3. Pleasure and Sadness of Love
Tags
Animal
Brown
Dog
Green
Guitar
Man
Nude
Orange
People
Pink
Poetry
Red
Woman
Frame dimensions
nee
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Photographer
Tom Haartsen
Tête d'homme
1991
Late period
92,0cm
x 73,0cm
linen
oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
CID
551
Details
English title
Head of a Man
Signed/dated
Signed and dated Constant '91, bottom left to center in grey paint
Tags
Man
Portrait
Frame dimensions
103,5 x 84 x 5 cm
Exhibitions
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Tom Haartsen
Le poète
1989
Late period
44,6cm
x 34,7cm
paper
watercolour
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
CID
546
Details
English title
Poet
Signed/dated
Signed and dated Constant '89, bottom right in pencil on white fond
Provenance
1989 Constant
Tags
Man
People
Poet
Portrait
Frame dimensions
67,8 x 57,5 x 2,8 cm
Exhibitions
Documentation
Work
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Image
Photographer
Tom Haartsen
Mannetje
1947
Early period
50,5cm
x 26,0cm
x 38,0cm
metal wire
paint
wood
Collection Kunstmuseum Den Haag, NL
CID
518
Details
English title
Little Chap
Alternate titles
Mannetje
1947 Archive entry
Bonhomme
2001
Provenance
Constant
Collection W. Hoogstraate, NL
Collection Kunstmuseum Den Haag, NL (bestowal)
Tags
Abstract
Fantasy creature
Man
Frame dimensions
No
Exhibitions
Documentation
Work
Archive
Image
Photographer
Tom Haartsen
ZT/Liefdespaar
1977
Late period
101,5cm
x 72,5cm
paper
watercolour
Private collection, NL
CID
516
Details
English title
Love Couple
Signed/dated
Signed and dated Constant '77, center right in bruine inkt op sanguine fond
Provenance
1977 Constant
2005 nalatenschap Constant
2011 Collection Fondation Constant, NL
Tags
Love
Man
Nude
People
Pink
Sepia
Sex
Woman
Frame dimensions
No
Exhibitions
Documentation
Work
Archive
Image
Photographer
Tom Haartsen
Flamenco
1997
Late period
194,0cm
x 185,0cm
linen
oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
CID
511
Details
Signed/dated
Signed and dated Constant '97, bottom left in brown paint on brown fond
Tags
Dance
Guitar
Man
Music
People
Woman
Frame dimensions
212 x 197 x 7 cm
Exhibitions
Documentation
Work
Archive
Image
Photographer
Tom Haartsen
Zwerver
1999
Late period
56,5cm
x 33,5cm
paper
watercolour
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
CID
506
Details
English title
Hobo
Signed/dated
Signed and dated Constant '99, bottom right from center in black watercolor
Provenance
1999 Constant
2005 Collection Fondation Constant
Tags
Black
Grey
Man
Poverty
Streetlife
White
Frame dimensions
82 x 59 x 2,5
Exhibitions
Documentation
Work
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Image
Photographer
Tom Haartsen
ZT/Jaap van Domselaer
1981
Late period
50,0cm
x 35,0cm
paper
watercolour
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
CID
500
Circa 1981.
Jaap van Domselaer was a poet and the brother of his first wife Matie. He lived with the couple in their apartment in Amsterdam during the second World War. Jaap was shot dead by the Germans when he tried to escape the occupied territory crossing the rivers to the liberated south of Holland. Jaap introduced Constant to many of the philosophers that would proof influential in Constant's visions.
Details
Signed/dated
Signed Constant, bottom right in pencil
Provenance
1981 Constant
2005 Collection Fondation Constant
Tags
Art
Family
Friend
Man
Poet
Portrait
Frame dimensions
73 x 58,5 x 3 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