Constant artwork • painting • previously for sale Composition
Constant
Amsterdam 1920-2005 Utrecht
1920-2005
Composition
oil on canvas 85.0 x 70.0 cm, signed l.r. and painted ca. 1946-1948
This painting was previously for sale.
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.