Corneille - Ingelijste aquagravure - 1999 - Sold

Framed aqua engraving by Corneille from 1999. Edition: 31/70. Dimensions incl frame: H101 x W114cm. Dimensions representation: H33 x W44cm. The work is signed and dated lower right by the artist. The authenticity of this work is fully guaranteed. A certificate can be emailed upon request.

Please note: the first photo shows some reflection of the photo at the chest and mouth. In reality this is not there.

The work can also be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The term for collection, with advance payment, is very long. In other words, the buyer can pick up the work weeks or even months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the aforementioned cities or the beach. We can also send the work via Postnl. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.

Frames: Damages to frames are not described. If a work is framed behind glass and the glass is broken, this will be mentioned. Reflections may be visible in photos of framed works.

Cornelis Guillaume van Beverloo, better known as Corneille (Liège, July 3, 1922 – Auvers-sur-Oise (France), September 5, 2010) was a Dutch painter and one of the members of Cobra.

Corneille was born in Liège, Belgium, to Dutch parents. Although largely self-taught, he took art courses at the Amsterdam State Academy between 1940 and 1942. In 1946 he held his first exhibition in Groningen.

Initially strongly influenced by Picasso's work, he broke away from it in 1948 and joined the Cobra movement; he co-founded it, together with, among others, the Dutch Karel Appel, Jan Nieuwenhuijs, his brother Constant Nieuwenhuijs and the Belgians Christian Dotremont and Joseph Noiret.

In 1950 he moved from Amsterdam to Paris where he lived until 1968 with the photographer Henny Riemens (1928-1993). The couple married in Amsterdam in 1955 and traveled several times to other parts of the world: North Africa, North America, the Antilles and South America. These journeys largely determine the nature of his work. From 1960 he fell back on figurative art, in which women, birds, flowers and often characters belong to his artistic vocabulary.

He himself claims that painting is not a hobby or work, but rather a vocation. In recent years, Corneille had his studio in Paris. Visitors were hardly tolerated by the artist. Corneille lived secluded in the Maison du Cedres in the French department of Val-d'Oise. He passed away on September 5, 2010. Corneille was buried in the cemetery in Auvers-sur-Oise, where Vincent van Gogh was also buried in 1890.