Image

Photographer
Tom Haartsen
1956
95,0cm
x 110,0cm
linen
oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant longterm loan to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
On the back of the painting it says Souvenir d'Uccello. Paolo Uccello (1397-1475) was an Italian painter and a mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art. In his book Lives of the Artists Giorgio Vasari claims that Uccello was obsessed by his interest in perspective and that he would stay up all night in his study trying to grasp the exact vanishing point. In his three piece painting The Battle for San Romano he uses the lances to create perspective, which Constant pays tribute to in this painting.
Details
English title
The lances (Souvenir D'Uccello)
Alternate titles
De lansen (Hommage à Uccello)
1965
Signed/dated
Signed and dated Constant '56, bottom right in white paint
Frame dimensions
nee
Exhibitions
Bibliography
Title | Year |
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The Most Dangerous Game | 2018 |
Constant. Ruimte + kleur | 2016 |
Constant. Space + colour | 2016 |
Constant. New Babylon | 2015 |
Constant. Nueva Babilonia | 2015 |