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Frieze Masters 2022
Stand D11, 12 - 16 October 2022

Frieze Masters 2022: Stand D11

past exhibition
Constant, Observatorium (II)/Observatory/Construction in green and white, 1956

Constant Dutch, 1920-2005

Observatorium (II)/Observatory/Construction in green and white, 1956
Construction of perspex and brass
height 52 cm x ø 48.5 cm
Signed “Constant” on the inside foot, bottom center in black ink
Constant / Fondation Constant c/o Pictoright Amsterdam

Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Constant, De Berenleider / The Bear Leader, c. 1984
  • Observatorium (II)/Observatory/Construction in green and white

Provenance

Collection Fondation Constant

Exhibitions

1956, Constant, Bart van der Leck, Piet Mondriaan, André Volten, Dutch Pavillon, XXVIII Venice Biennale, Venice

1959, Constant. Constructies en maquettes/Constant. Constructions and Models, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

1960, Holländische Plastik der Gegenwart, Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt am Main

1961, Constant • Amsterdam, Städtische Kunstgalerie Bochum (catalogue texts of Peter Leo and Constant)

1965, Constant | Paintings, Constructions and Drawings and New Babylon Constant, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague

1966, Constant from Cobra to New Babylon. Paintings, Gouaches, Constructions and Models, Provinciaal Museum, ’s-Hertogenbosch

1967, Constant | Von Cobra bis New Babylon, Galerie Heseler, München

1998-1999, Retrospective exhibition of Constant’s New Babylon project, Witte de With, Center for contemporary art, Rotterdam

2015, Constant. New Babylon, BorzoGallery, Art Basel, Basel 2015

2015, Constant. Nueva Babilonia / Constant. New Babylon, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

2016, Constant. Space + Color. From Cobra to New Babylon, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen

2019, Nederland <> Bauhaus - Pioniers van een nieuwe wereld, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam


Literature

Borja-Villel, Manuel, ea., Constant. New Babylon, exh.cat. Madrid (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía) 2015, p. 64 (ill.)

Constant en Trudy van der Horst, C’est notre désir qui fait la révolution. Constant, a monograph, exh.cat. Amsterdam (BorzoGallery) 2015, p. 13 (Observatory)

Haaren, J.W.M. van & Constant Nieuwenhuys, Constant – schilderijen, gouaches, plastieken, maquettes van Cobra naar New Babylon, exh.cat. 's-Hertogenbosch (Noordbrabants Museum) 1966, cat.no. 76

Halem, Ludo van & Marcel Hummelink, Nieuwe aanwinsten. La fleur mécanique. Een constructie van Constant, in Jong Holland, Tijdschrift voor kunst en vormgeving na 1850, no 2/94, pp 42-48, afb. 2

Hammacher, A.M., Constant, Bart van der Leck, Piet Mondriaan, André Volten, exh.cat. Venice (Dutch Pavillon, XXVIII Biennale di Venezia) 1956, pp. 443-446, cat.no. 3

Lambert, Jean-Clarence, Constant. New Babylon. Art et Utopie, exh.cat. Paris (Éditions Cercle d'Art) 1997, p. 116 (ill.)

Leo, Peter & Constant Nieuwenhuys, Constant • Amsterdam, exh.cat. Bochum (Städtische Kunstgalerie) 1961, cat.no. 44

Nieuwenhuys, Constant, Constant: von Cobra bis New Babylon, exh.cat. München (Galerie Heseler) 1967, cat.no. 45

Weitering, Katja, Ludo van Halem, ea., Constant. Space + Colour. From Cobra to New Babylon, exh.cat. Amstelveen (Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst) 2016, p. 79 (ill.)

Wigley, Mark, Constant's New Babylon. The Hyper-Architecture of Desire, exh.cat. Rotterdam (Witte de With, Center for contemporary art) 1998, p. 23, ill. 1

Wijsenbeek, L.J.F., Constant Nieuwenhuys, Jos de Gruyter & Hein van Haaren, Constant. Paintings, gouaches, constructions and drawings and New Babylon, exh.cat The Hague (Haags Gemeentemuseum) 1965, cat.no. 136

Publications

Hy Hirsh, Gyromorphosis. Space Sculptures by Constant, 1958, the Netherlands, 16 mm film by Hy Hirsh (1911-1961), 7’ [Observatory is one of the 'space sculptures' posing in the film]

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