Boot met vliegende figuur

1949
45.0cm x 54.1cm
chalk, gouache, graphite, ink, paper
Collection Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, NL
CID: 1279

Bord/Vrouw

1949
5.0cm x 19.0cm x 19.0cm
ceramic
Collection Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
CID: 2305

Donated to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam by Hans Sonnenberg in 2016.

Carnaval

1949
50.5cm x 40.3cm
crayon, paper
Private collection
CID: 1294

De redenaar

1949
64.3cm x 80.4cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL
CID: 638

De vogelman

1949
30.0cm x 24.0cm
linen, oil paint
Private collection, Belgium
CID: 3195

Elba/Napoleon van Elba (Bloedjas Napoleon)

1949
49.5cm x 59.0cm
crayon, paper
Private collection, NL
CID: 1299

Drawing by Constant accompanies a poem by Gerrit Kouwenaar.

Fauna

1949
74.9cm x 85.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL
CID: 279

Femme Oiseau

1949
120.0cm x 65.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (long term loan from Collection Fondation Gandur pour l'Art, Geneva, Switzerland)
CID: 1238

Femme qui a blessé un oiseau avec une feuille morte

1949
110.0cm x 95.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Munich to Kunsthalle Emden, Germany. Donation from Otto van de Loo
CID: 280

Femme-fleur

1949
89.7cm x 74.5cm
linen, oil paint
Collection K. van Stuijvenberg on loan to Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL
CID: 645

In episode three of Constant 1-on-1 the podcast Ronald Tolman tells an ankedote about the provenance of the painting, Femme-fleur aka Personnage de nuit [1949]. In the CoBrA period Constant had an important exhibition opening [this could be the exhibition at Henry Schou in 1951*]. He does not have a suit and convinces a reluctant tailor to choose a painting as payment for a tailoredmadesuit.