Inspired by the events in Kosovo. On April 12, 1999 Time Magazine printed a powerful cover photo by photographer Damir Sagolj of refugees from Kosovo with a woman with a white head scarf and a baby at her breast in front. It may have been this image that inspired Constant to paint Les éxpulsés. When you look at the original photo the white head scarf, the coloroud clothes in the middle of the line of people and the curved bend of the line of refugees are mirrored in Constants painting.
Work
La rue
1999
115.0cm x 110.5cm
paper, watercolour
Collection Fondation Constant longterm loan to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
CID: 544
Les expulsés
1999
149.0cm x 143.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant longterm loan to Rijksmuseum Twenthe, NL
CID: 18
ZT/Vrouwenhoofd [II]
1999
21.5cm x 23.6cm
ink, paper
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
CID: 1635
Circa 1990.
Printed in Hollands Maandblad 1999 - 8/9, p. 47
Constant 1998 1999 2000-Studies for Junkies
1998
paper, pencil
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
CID: 3297
Zeedijk is a street in Amsterdam, close to Constants home.
Die Krähe
1998
90.0cm x 95.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
CID: 491
The Crow is one of the 24 songs from Winterreise by Franz Schubert. It's a tribute to the poet Wilhelm Müller on whose poems Winterreise is based. On the back of the painting is says gewidmet Wilhelm Müller (dedicated to Wilhem Müller).