Le Massacre de My Lai

1972

New Babylon

120,5cm

x 130,3cm

linen

oil paint

Private collection, NL

CID

943

In 1968 American soldiers murder mainly women and children in the Vietnamese village My Lai after the American Intelligence Agency claimed to have information that Vietcong soldiers were hiding there. No Vietcong members were found.

Details

English title

My Lai Massacre

Alternate titles

Le massacre

1978

Massacre de My Lai

1972 Archive entry

Signed/dated

Signed and dated Constant '72 bottom, left in brown paint

Provenance

1972 Constant

Private collection, NL

Frame dimensions

132 x 141,5 x 4,5 cm

Exhibitions

Title	Year
WORK, BODY, LEISURE	2018
Constant - New Babylon. Aan ons de vrijheid	2016
Constant - Nueva Babilonia	2015
Constant / New Babylon	1998
Schilderijen 1940-1980	1980
Schilderijen 1969-77	1978
Schilderijen en aquarellen	1976

Bibliography

Title	Year
Exit Utopia \| Architectural Provocations, 1956-76	2005
Cobra	1987
Constant \| schilderijen 1940-1980	1980
Constant	1979
Constant \| Schilderijen 1969-77	1978

Documentation

Title	Type	Year
Kunstmuseum Den Haag; Constant – New Babylon	Article	2016
El Reina Sofía recrea la utópica Nueva Babilonia de Constant	Film	2015
Constant and Picasso \| Language of War Art	Article	1991

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