Constants last work. He signed the work in 2004 and then started working on it again. In the documentary Constant, avant le départ he says when he visits his studio for the last time: A last look at my last painting. I'm finished with this painting. The next person working on this will be the restorer.
Dutch: Een laatste blik op mijn laatste schilderij. Ik hoef hier niets meer aan te doen. De volgende hand is van de restaurator.
Work
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photo: Tom Haartsen
Le piège
2005
170.0cm x 167.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant longterm loan to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
photo: Tom Haartsen
Le dernier rêve
2003
83.0cm x 80.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant longterm loan to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
A friend on her deathbed.
photo: Tom Haartsen
Les baigneurs
2002
163.0cm x 170.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant longterm loan to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
Inspired by the Mediterranean in Antibes, south of France.
photo: Tom Haartsen
photo: Tom Haartsen
Les enfants perdus
2000
130.0cm x 97.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant longterm loan to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
photo: Tom Haartsen
photo: Tom Haartsen
Les expulsés
1999
149.0cm x 143.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant longterm loan to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
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.
photo: Tom Haartsen
Die Krähe
1998
90.0cm x 95.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant longterm loan to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
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).
photo: Tom Haartsen
Homeless
1998
150.0cm x 144.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant longterm loan to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
photo: Tom Haartsen
Flamenco
1997
194.0cm x 185.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant longterm loan to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL