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A drawing in an exercise book with Greek writings. His wife at the time, Matie van Domselaer, was studying ancient languages.
Circa 1946
Circa 1946
Circa 1946
Constant's son Victor was two years old at the time.
After the Second World War, Constant starts to experiment with a cubist painting style. Of the two founders of cubism, Picasso and Braque, Constant feels more akin with the latter. It is often said that the cubist work of Braque maintains a sense of balance and harmony while Picasso strived for disruption in his art. Constant’s ‘Portret van Matie’ is indeed a fine example from Constant's body of work of a balanced harmony of shapes, as seen in Braque's cubism. For another example, see Stilleven [II], 1945.
A portrait of Constant's first wife Matie van Domselaer, inspired by Picasso.