After Pygmalion from Metamorphoses, book X, by Ovid. 
Portfolio, edition: 10 copies. 

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.

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).

ca. 1986