Image
Photographer
Tom Haartsen
Fête de la tristesse
1949
85,0cm
x 110,0cm
linen
oil paint
Collection Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, NL on longterm loan from Rijksdienst voor Cultureel Erfgoed
CID
281
Painted on his birthday July 21st, 1949, this painting captures the heartache Constant experiences after his wife Matie has left him for his friend and colleague Asger Jorn, taking his two daughters Martha and Olga with her.
Details
English title
Feast of Sadness
Alternate titles
Fête de la tristesse
1948
Feest der droevenis
2015
Signed/dated
Signed and dated Constant '49, top center in black
Provenance
1949 Constant
1962 Collection Rijksdienst voor Cultureel Erfgoed | K62384
2002 Collection Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, NL
Frame dimensions
unknown
Bibliography
Books
| Title | Year | Page | Number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cobra 1948-1951 | The History of a European Avant-Garde Movement | 2017 | 244 | 252 |
| Klee en Cobra | 2012 | 147 | |
| Klee und Cobra | 2012 | 147 | |
| Klee and Cobra | 2012 | 147 | |
| Klee & Cobra | 2012 | 23 | |
| Los van traditie | 2011 | 69 | |
| COBRA (Schone Kunsten, Brussel) | 2008 | 180 | 57 |
| Constant, De late periode | 2008 | 66 | 77 |
| Constant, Grafiek | 2004 | 202 | 3 |
| Constant, Graveur | 2004 | 202 | 3 |
| Cobra | De weg naar spontaniteit | 2001 | 59 | 54 |
| Constant, Une rétrospective | 2001 | 132 | 5 |
| Het kind in cobra | 2000 | 43 | |
| Constant. Les trois espaces | 1992 | 34 | 18 |
| Phantom Avantgarde | 1990 | 102 | 42 |
| [NL] Cobra | 1987 | 81 | 83 |
| [EN] Cobra | 1987 | 81 | 83 |
| Constant 1945-1983 | 1986 | 24 | 8 |
| COBRA, un art libre | 1983 | 73 | |
| COBRA 1948-1951 | 1982 | 89 | 32 |
| Constant | schilderijen 1940-1980 | 1980 | 51 | 28 |
| Constant | bildende Kunst und Baukunst in den Niederlanden | 1967 | 4 | |
| Constant | art et architecture aux pay-bas | 1967 | 4 | |
| cobra 1948/51 | 1966 | 62 | 75 |
Documentation
| Title | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Cobra: a Short Animated History | Films | 2009 |
| Constant, avant le départ | Films | 2005 |
Exhibitions
| Title | Year |
|---|---|
| Klee & Cobra | 2012 |
| Klee + Cobra | 2012 |
| Klee und Cobra | 2011 |
| Het kind in CoBrA | 2000 |
| Constant 1945-1983 | 1986 |
| COBRA 1948-1951 | 1982 |
| Schilderijen 1940-1980 | 1980 |
| Cobra 1948-1951 | 1966 |
| Constant • Amsterdam | 1961 |
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