Circa 1940.
Work
Pages
photo: Unknown
photo: Tom Haartsen
ZT/Zittende vrouw met hoofddoek
1940
39.6cm x 28.6cm
paper, pencil
Collection Stedelijk Museum Zutphen/ Museum Henriëtte Polak, NL
photo: Tom Haartsen
Portret van mijn grootvader
1938
45.0cm x 38.0cm
paper, pencil
Private collection
Constants grandfather on his mother's side was a tailor. Constant wore a purple suit made by his grandfather when he met Gerrit Kouwenaar on the Magere brug (Skinny Bridge) on a summer day in Amsterdam in 1942. Gerrit Kouwenaar later described this first meeting in the opening speech of an exhibition of Constant in Galerie Le Canard, 26 Januari 1952, with the following words:
photo: Tom Haartsen
photo: Tom Haartsen