Image

Constant Nieuwenhuys-Jacob van Domselaer, ca 1981

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.

    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

    Image

    Constant Nieuwenhuys-Lautréamont, ca 1980

    Photographer

    Tom Haartsen

    Lautréamont

    1980
    Late period
    50,0cm
    x 35,7cm
    watercolour
    Collection Fondation Constant, NL

    CID

    193

    Circa 1980
    Comte de Lautréamont is pseudonym for Isidore Lucien Ducasse (Montevideo, Urugay), 04 April 1846 to 24 November 1870. He was a French author and poet and an important forerunner of Surrealism. In 1868 he wrote Les Chants de Maldoror (a poetic novel).

      Signed/dated

      Titled 'Lautréamont', bottom right in sanguine crayon. Signed Constant, bottom right in brown watercolor

      Provenance

      Constant
      2005 Collection Fondation Constant
      Tags
      Art
      Literature
      Man
      Poet
      Poetry
      Portrait

      Frame dimensions

      74,2 x 60,1 x 2,8 cm