Collection Hans and Alice de Jong, Hengelo / Ascona
Collection De Cuser, Amsterdam

Arnhem, Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, Oog in oog met Hans en Alice de Jong, June - September 1970, no. 70

The work is glued at the four corners to the mount. There is some soft discolouration along all four extreme edges probably due to former framing. A few finger shaped creases in the left lower quarter of the work.
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"I regard myself as a painter, and drawing is important to me, it is a common theme in my life."
(from: Fanny Kelk, Constant, een illustratie, exhibition catalogue of the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, November 1974 – January 1975, p. 10)

In 1948 Constant wrote: "a painter no longer is a structure of colours and lines, but a beast, a night, a cry, a person, or all of that together"
(Manifesto, in Reflex, 8 October)