Inspired by the events in Kosovo. On April 12, 1999 Time Magazine printed a powerful cover photo by photographer Damir Sagolj of refugees from Kosovo with a woman with a white head scarf and a baby at her breast in front. It may have been this image that inspired Constant to paint Les éxpulsés. When you look at the original photo the white head scarf, the coloroud clothes in the middle of the line of people and the curved bend of the line of refugees are mirrored in Constants painting.
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photo: Tom Haartsen
La rue
1999
115.0cm x 110.5cm
paper, watercolor
Collection Fondation Constant longterm loan to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
photo: Tom Haartsen
photo: Tom Haartsen
Les expulsés
1999
149.0cm x 143.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant longterm loan to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
photo: Tom Haartsen
photo: Tom Haartsen
ZT/Vrouwenhoofd [II]
1999
21.5cm x 23.6cm
ink, paper
Collection Fondation Constant
Circa 1990.
Printed in Hollands Maandblad 1999 - 8/9, p. 47
photo: Tom Haartsen
photo: Tom Haartsen
photo: Tom Haartsen
Constant 1998 1999 2000-01 Junks op de Zeedijk
1998
paper, pencil
Collection Fondation Constant, NL
Zeedijk is a street in Amsterdam, close to Constants home.
photo: Tom Haartsen
Die Krähe
1998
90.0cm x 95.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant longterm loan to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
The Crow is one of the 24 songs from Winterreise by Franz Schubert. It's a tribute to the poet Wilhelm Müller on whose poems Winterreise is based. On the back of the painting is says gewidmet Wilhelm Müller (dedicated to Wilhem Müller).
photo: Tom Haartsen
Homeless
1998
150.0cm x 144.0cm
linen, oil paint
Collection Fondation Constant longterm loan to Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL