Constant Dutch, 1920-2005
New Babylon, 1963
10 lithographs on Hahnemühle-Bütten paper, inserted in portfolio with black cloth boards with blindtooled title
41.5 x 38.5 x 2.5 cm (portfolio)
Each sheet 40 x 75.5 cm
Each sheet 40 x 75.5 cm
EA of an edition of 50 + 10
Signed by Constant and Simon Vinkenoog. Annotated by Constant 'épreuve d’artiste'.
Portfolio with ten folded sheets: 41 x 39 cm. Issued in slipcase. Printed in the spring of 1963 in an edition of 50 copies (numbered 1-50) and an edition of...
Portfolio with ten folded sheets: 41 x 39 cm. Issued in slipcase. Printed in the spring of 1963 in an edition of 50 copies (numbered 1-50) and an edition of 10 luxury copies with original drawing (numbered I-X) for Galerie d'Eendt.
Sheets 1, 2, 6-10 are full-sheet images (40 x 76 cm). Prints 3-5 combine image and text. Each folded sheet has guard tissue.
Signed by Constant and Simon Vinkenoog.
Other examples from the edition are in the collections of the Fondation Constant / Teylers Museum, Haarlem / Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld / Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam / Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam / Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam / MACBA, Barcelona / Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede / Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague / Reina Sofia, Madrid.
Sheets 1, 2, 6-10 are full-sheet images (40 x 76 cm). Prints 3-5 combine image and text. Each folded sheet has guard tissue.
Signed by Constant and Simon Vinkenoog.
Other examples from the edition are in the collections of the Fondation Constant / Teylers Museum, Haarlem / Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld / Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam / Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam / Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam / MACBA, Barcelona / Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede / Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague / Reina Sofia, Madrid.
Provenance
Private collection, the NetherlandsExhibitions
1963, New Babylon, Galerie Le Canard, Amsterdam (1 may - 30 jun 1963)1965, CONSTANT 1945 | 1965, Galerie Krikhaar, Amsterdam (2 January - 2 February 1965)
1966, Constant: Pitture, Disegni, Guazzi, Acquarelli. Sculture, 'New Babylon', Dutch Pavilion, XXXIII Esposizione Biennale Internazionale, Venice (18 June – 16 October 1966)
1984, Cobra in het Stedelijk Museum van Schiedam, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam (10 November - 2 December 1984)
1996, Situationists. Art, politics, urbanism, MACBA, Barcelona (13 November 1996 - 6 January 1997)
1998, Constant's New Babylon. The Hyper-Architecture of Desire, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (21 November 1998 – 10 January 1999)
2013, Ik hou van Holland. Nederlandse kunst na 1945, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam (21 September 2013 - 6 September 2015)
2019, Impossible Architecture. Another History of Architecture, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama (2 February - 24 March 2019). Travelling to Niigita City Art Museum, Niigita (13 April - 15 July 2019), Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima (18 September - 8 December 2019) and The National Museum of Art, Osaka (7 January - 15 March 2020)
2021, Constant 101: The Future Can be Humane, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen (5 November 2021 - 6 March 2022)
2024, Building a New World, Museum CODA, Apeldoorn (30 June - 29 September 2024)
Literature
Dagen, P., Constant. Grafiek, Zwolle 2004, pp. 54-63, nos. 33-42 (ill.)Igarashi, Taro and Akira Tatehata, Impossible Architecture, exh.cat. Osaka (The National Museum of Art) 2019, pp. 84, 85, 88, 89 (ill.)
Stamps, L. and W. Stokvis, Constant. New Babylon. Aan ons de vrijheid, exh.cat. The Hague (Kunstmuseum) 2016, p. 42 (ill.)
Wigley, Mark, Constant & Bartomeu Marí, Constant's New Babylon. The Hyper-Architecture of Desire, exh.cat. Rotterdam (Witte de With / 010 Publishers) 1998, pp. 148-149 (ill.)
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