ZT/Hond

1950
gouache, indian ink, paper
Collection unknown
CID: 3288

Circa 1950. Cover of Constant's Artiste libre of Bibliotèque d'Alexandrie from 1950.

ZT/Zwangere vrouw

1950
16.9cm x 13.0cm
gouache, pencil
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
CID: 3291

Drawn on the inside of Bibliothèque de Cobra | Constant, ca 1950.

Animaux

1949
85.2cm x 70.5cm
linen, oil paint
Collection ABN AMRO on loan to Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL
CID: 632

Après nous la Liberté

1949
139.5cm x 107.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Tate Modern London, UK
CID: 278

This work was painted in Amsterdam and its original title was ‘A Nous la Liberté'. In a letter to the curator of the Tate Modern, dated 6 February 1988 Constant recalled the ‘general mood' from which the painting emerged and explained why the title was later changed:

After the five years of the German Occupation, during which hardly any work of other painters was to be seen, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam organised a large show of contemporary Dutch art, entitled ‘Kunst in vryheid' (Art in freedom).

Barricade

1949
372.0cm x 300.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
CID: 285

This huge painting "Barricade" [372 × 300 cm] was made in 1949 for the exhibition International Exhibition of Experimental Art' at Stedelik Museum Amsterdam.

Materials for this and other works by fellow Cobra artists, were provided by the museum, as the artists couldn't afford them. Due to its large size and since Constant was unable to pay back the 100 guilders he was due for the materials, the painting stayed at the museum.

Boot met vliegende figuur

1949
45.0cm x 54.1cm
chalk, gouache, graphite, ink, paper
Collection Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, NL
CID: 1279

Bord/Vrouw

1949
5.0cm x 19.0cm x 19.0cm
ceramic
Collection Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
CID: 2305

Donated to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam by Hans Sonnenberg in 2016.

Carnaval

1949
50.5cm x 40.3cm
crayon, paper
Collection Kunstmuseum Den Haag, NL
CID: 1294

De redenaar

1949
64.3cm x 80.4cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL
CID: 638

De vogelman

1949
30.0cm x 24.0cm
linen, oil paint
Private collection, Belgium
CID: 3195