wax crayon and chalk on paper, signed and dated 'Constant 1949' lower left, 49,7 x 50,2 cm.

Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by Aldo and Hannie van Eyck; Exhibited: The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Constant: schilderijen plastieken New Babylon, 1 October-21 November 1965, no. 100; Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Cobra 1948/51, 20 May-17 July 1966, no. 77 (illustrated in b/w p. 63); Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Constant: een illustratie van vrijheid-tekeningen 1945-74, 28 November 1974-5 January 1975; Literature: Cobra nr. 4, Amsterdam, November 1949, p. 24 (illustrated in b/w; in a different orientation); Bert Schierbeek, De experimentelen, Amsterdam, 1963, fig. 8 (illustrated in b/w); Hans Redeker, "Cobra een eeuw geleden", in Algemeen Handelsblad, 4 June 1966 (illustrated in b/w); Willemijn Stokvis, Cobra, Amsterdam, 1985, p. 178 and p. 275, fig. 42 (illustrated in b/w); Willemijn Stokvis, Cobra 1948-1951: terug naar de bronnen van kunst en leven, Zwolle, 2008, pp. 80/81, fig. 45 (illustrated in colour); Michael Baumgartner a.o., Klee en Cobra, exhibition catalogue Amstelveen/Gent, 2012, p. 81, fig. 3 (illustrated in colour)