Corneille - Colorful -1993- Lithograph "Songes du Diable" potldsigned - in mint condition

• Funny and remarkable lithograph by Guillaume Corneille (1922 - 2010)

"Songs of the Devil"
HAND SIGNED, DATED and NUMBERED
Technique: Lithography
Year: 1993
Circulation: 999
Dimensions: 35 x 47 cm
Condition: Fine

Corneille was born in Liège, Belgium, to Dutch parents. Although largely self-taught, he took art courses at the Amsterdam Academy between 1940 and 1942. In 1946 he held his first exhibition in Groningen. Initially strongly influenced by the work of Picasso, he broke away from it in 1948 and joined the Cobra movement; he is a co-founder of this movement, 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 with the photographer Henny Riemens (1928-1993) until 1968. The couple married in Amsterdam in 1955 and travelled 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 onwards 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 a job, but rather a calling. In recent years Corneille had his studio in Paris. Visitors were hardly tolerated by the artist. In 2006 a record amount of € 215,000 was paid for a painting by Corneille. Corneille lived a secluded life in the Maison du Cedres in the French department of Val-d'Oise. He died on 5 September 2010. Corneille was buried in the cemetery in Auvers-sur-Oise, where Vincent van Gogh was also buried in 1890.