Corneille ('Corneille' Guillaume Beverloo)
Luik (België) 1922-2010 Auvers-sur-Oise (Frankrijk)
La reine du monde, coloured lithograph on paper 75,5 x 55 cm., signed l.r. (in pencil) and dated '98 (in pencil)
815224/Coll.I cv
Price band: up to 2.500 euro
Corneille, along with Appel and Constant, was one of the leading figures of the COBRA group (1948-1951) in the Netherlands. In the nineteen fifties he shared a studio with Appel on the Rue Santeuil in Paris, where he developed a style characterised by an expressive interplay of lines and a well-thought out composition. As a result of several trips to distant countries in 1957 and 1958, for the next couple of years Corneille began painting abstract constructions of cities and agglomerations comprising a whimsical build up of forms and lines. In the nineteen sixties he switched to the exuberantly painted birds and suns for which he became so well-known.