Work

Pages

De gevangene

1991

18.5cm x 13.1cm

aquatint

Collection Fondation Constant

Edition: 17

photo: Tom Haartsen

La belle noiseuse

1991

8.9cm x 11.9cm

aquatint, etching

Collection Fondation Constant

Edition: 20
The title La belle noiseuse appears in a short story by Honoré de Balzac, Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (The unknown masterpiece) from 1831.

photo: Tom Haartsen

Sans espoir

1991

77.5cm x 55.0cm

color lithograph

Collection Fondation Constant

Edition: 25
Inspired by the severe famine in Somalia.

photo: Tom Haartsen

Spelende honden

1991

17.8cm x 19.1cm

aquatint

Collection Fondation Constant

Editions: 119 [20 e.a. & 99]

photo: Tom Haartsen

Tikus

1991

9.0cm x 11.8cm

etching

Collection Fondation Constant

No edition.
Tikus, mouse in Malaisan, was Constant's dog since 1990 and passed away a few days after Constant. Constant used to tell about the way they met. After his dog Waldo died, he went to the dogshelter to get a new dog. Tikus was the saddest looking dog from the shelter. However, as soon as Tikus saw Constant enter, he stayed by his side. When the little dog even followed him to the toilet, Constant decided that he would take him home. They were inseparable for 15 years.

photo: Tom Haartsen

Erlkönig

1990

17.8cm x 12.7cm

aquatint, etching

Collection Fondation Constant

Edition: 15
Elf King is a ballad written by the German poet, Goethe, in 1782. Put to music by Schubert in 1815. It tells the sad tale of a father riding home with his son in his arms (presumably the boy is ill). The boy sees feverish images of the Elf king, imagery of death, who tries to lure him to the 'other side'. The boy frantically cries out to his father for help. The Elf king is relentless and threatens to take the boy by force. When the father reaches his destination the boy has passed away.
Constant also made a watercolor of Erlkönig.