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Constantartist • painter • watercolourist • draughtsman • printmakerAmsterdam 1920-2005 Utrecht

biography of Constant (Constant Anton Nieuwenhuijs)

Constant met Karel Appel and Corneille in 1948 and with them, plus Dotremont, Noiret and Asger Jorn, founded the Cobra group. He had first made international contacts with like-minded artists in Paris in 1946 and along with Dotremont was the major theorist of the group. In his work, which as early as 1946 is already characterised by experimental forms and techniques, the fantasy creatures with large eyes and crude limbs that came to epitomise the Cobra idiom are already there. While Karel Appel and Corneille had an international breakthrough with their work, Constant remained the ideologist of the group.


for salepaintings, watercolours, drawings and prints & multiples by Constant


Constant | Dieren (Animals), lithograph, 29.0 x 22.0 cm, signed l.c. and dated '48

Constant

prints & multiples • for sale

Dieren (Animals)

Constant | IJhorst table, metal and glass, 46.4 x 65.0 cm, signed on the frame and dated 1953

Constant

painting • for sale

IJhorst table


previously for salepaintings, watercolours, drawings and prints & multiples by Constant


Constant | Composition, oil on canvas, 85.0 x 70.0 cm, signed l.r. and painted ca. 1946-1948

Constant

painting • previously for sale

Composition

Constant | Yellow Man, gouache on paper, 34.0 x 44.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated '49

Constant

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Yellow Man

Constant | Piggy, chalk and watercolour on paper, 21.1 x 29.6 cm, signed l.r. and dated 30-9-77

Constant

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

Piggy

Constant | The lesson, chalk, watercolour and gouache on paper, 43.8 x 49.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated '78

Constant

watercolour • drawing • previously for sale

The lesson


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