Image

Photographer
Tom Haartsen
Donated to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam by Hans Sonnenberg in 2016.
Drawing by Constant accompanies a poem by Gerrit Kouwenaar.
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.