Rosalind Constable (1907-1994) was a cultural correspondent for Time, Inc. from 1937-1967. Having emigrated from London she joined the young company as a researcher for Fortune and subsequently was assigned to suggest material and writers for a new intellectual magazine. Although the project was abandoned, Ms. Constable was retained to provide monthly in-house reports on the avant garde to the editors of all Time publications. Thus was born the "Rosalind Constable Report," fondly known as Rosie's Bugle, and once described by the Village Voice as the best publication that Time put out.
She covered painting and sculpture, film, dance, theater and literature, keeping editors informed on what was going on in the outposts of culture in America, England and France. Her research involved reading over two hundred limited-circulation magazines and weekly reviews, attending little-known theaters and galleries and constantly talking to anyone engaged with the new. She wrote about the most gifted people of her times before they were known to the public. Genet, Ionesco and Beckett, Sylvia Plath, Pierre Boulez and Dubuffet, Jackson Pollock, Rothko and Newman, Rosenquist, Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol were among the subjects of her reports. Her work became the instigation for many Time articles. After retiring, she wrote a number of pieces for New York magazine in its first years, finally moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1972.
Throughout the 1950's and 1960's Ms. Constable collected work, primarily drawings and prints, by the artists she met and on whom she was writing. She had a good eye and bought what she liked. Although modest in scale, her collection reflects a passionate interest in the art of her times and the courage to embrace the unknown.
--Paul Winkler, September 1995
Property from the Estate of
ROSALIND CONSTABLE
Edouard-Léon-Théodore Mesens (1903-1971)
Details
Edouard-Léon-Théodore Mesens (1903-1971)
Le Fou de Roy
signed and dated 'Mesens 19/1960' lower left and numbered '19/1960' lower right--signed, titled, numbered and dated again 'E.L.T. Mesens
LE FOU DU ROY No. 19/1960' on the reverse--colored felt-tip pen and paper collage on paper
8 7/8 x 7in. (22.2 x 17.8cm.)
Le Fou de Roy
signed and dated 'Mesens 19/1960' lower left and numbered '19/1960' lower right--signed, titled, numbered and dated again 'E.L.T. Mesens
LE FOU DU ROY No. 19/1960' on the reverse--colored felt-tip pen and paper collage on paper
8 7/8 x 7in. (22.2 x 17.8cm.)
Provenance
Galleria d'Arte del Naviglio, Milan.