Description
Lithograph by Corneille named ‘Tropique‘.
Published in year 1968.
Edition number E.A.
Signed by the artist right under.
Numbered on the left’ E.A.
Sheet dimensions 76,2 x 57 cm.
Image dimensions 76,2 x 57 cm.
Note:
Work can be found among others in the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam/Netherlands).
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CORNEILLE
Corneille, born Cornelis Guillaume van Beverloo, was a painter and graphic artist who set the conservative Dutch art world on fire in the early 1950s. In 1949, Corneille was co-founder (together with Karel Appel, among others) of the well-known avant-garde group ‘CoBrA’ (Copenhagen-Brussels-Amsterdam), the post-war expressionist European movement.
Corneille was born on July 3, 1922 to Dutch parents in Liège, Belgium and went on to study art at the Academy of Visual Arts in Amsterdam in 1940, but is generally considered a self-taught painter. His approach is often described as imaginative and poetic, and is characterized by an eccentric use of color and his placement of familiar subjects, such as cats, birds and women, in mythological or youthful settings.
He was partly influenced by African art, which he collected during his travels through the continent in the 1950s. His work was also influenced by artists such as Paul Klee and Pablo Picasso. And especially through Vincent van Gogh’s use of color and form. His works are included in the collections of the Cobra Museum in the Netherlands, the Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He died on September 5, 2010 in Paris, France.
