Image

De Emmaüsgangers

Photographer

Tom Haartsen

De Emmaüsgangers

1936
Early period
86,0cm
x 81,0cm
jute
varnish paint
Private collection, NL

CID

271

Constant grew up in a Catholic environment and attended Saint Ignatius College, a Jesuit college in Amsterdam. In 1936 he painted his first oil painting and chose a religious subject: “The Emmaus Travellers”. Constant painted this work on an old burlap sack and used pigment from a house painter that he bought with his pocket money. Soon, other works of art with religious themes would follow. Not much later, however, he distances himself from the church and during WW II there is a definite break.

    English title

    Travellers to Emmaus

    Alternate titles

    Emmaus gangers
    1936
    De Emmaüsgangers
    2008

    Signed/dated

    Constant Nieuwenhuys bottom right in red brown oil on beige ochre fond

    Provenance

    Constant
    1979 Nel Kerkhoven (scheiding Constant)
    2021 Private collection, NL
    Tags
    Man
    People
    Religion

    Frame dimensions

    101 x 95,7 x 4,5 cm
    Title Year Page Number
    Constant, De late periode 2008 32 33

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