Image
Photographer
Tom Haartsen
Donated to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam by Hans Sonnenberg in 2016.
Work
Boot met vliegende figuur
1949
45.0cm x 54.1cm
chalk, gouache, graphite, ink, paper
Collection Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, NL
CID: 1279
De redenaar
1949
64.3cm x 80.4cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL
CID: 638
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.
