Image
Photographer
Tom Haartsen
In the documentary Constant, avant le départ, 2005, the work is shown to Constant. He remarks about the work: The design is weak but the colours are good.
Work
Stilleven met lelies in een vaas
1940
61.5cm x 49.7cm
linen, oil paint
Private collection, Aerdenhout, NL
CID: 437
ZT/Zittende vrouw met hoofddoek
1940
39.6cm x 28.6cm
paper, pencil
Collection Stedelijk Museum Zutphen/ Museum Henriëtte Polak, NL
CID: 2563
Circa 1940.
Femmes damnées
1939
21.8cm x 28.0cm
paper, pencil, watercolour
Collection ProWinko
CID: 1351
Circa 1939.
In 1939/1940 Constant drew 8 illustrations for the poems Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire,1857.
Both the drawings Le revenant (The Ghost) and Femmes damnées (Delphine et Hippolyte) are from Fleurs du Mal.
Le revenant
1939
20.0cm x 13.5cm
crayon, paper, pencil, watercolour
Private collection
CID: 1250
Circa 1939
In 1939/1940 Constant drew 8 illustrations for the poems Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire, 1857.
Both the drawings Le revenant (The Ghost) and Femmes damnées (Delphine et Hippolyte) are from Fleurs du Mal.
Portret van mijn moeder
1938
44.1cm x 33.5cm
crayon, paper, pencil
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
CID: 1027
Portret van mijn grootvader
1937
45.0cm x 38.0cm
crayon, paper
Private collection, NL
CID: 118
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:
