Description

CORNEILLE van Beverloo 1998 Mixed Media ‘Oiseau’

Stunning contemporary artwork by Corneille

Mixed media with on reverse side another but obliterated artwork

Simply named ‘Oiseau’ – on heavy structured paper

Size : 37 cm x 28 cm (14.8″ x 10″)

Handsigned right hand side under artwork

Info on Corneille :

Corneille Guillaume Beverloo (3 July 1922 – 5 September 2010), better known under his pseudonym Corneille, was a Dutch artist.

Corneille was born in Liege, Belgium, although his parents were Dutch and moved back to the Netherlands when he was 12. He studied art at the Academy of Art in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. He was one of the founders of the REFLEX movement in 1948 and in 1949 he was also one of the founders of the COBRA movement, which has had great influence on Scandinavian art. He was active within the group from the beginning, not only painting but also publishing poetry in the Cobra magazine. He was a cofounder of the Experimentele Groep in Holland (nl).

While at the academy he became a close friend of Karel Appel and co-founded the COBRA GROUP of artists, with Appel, Alechinksy, Jorn and Dubuffet, in 1948.

His early work was naturalistic, but after being inspired by the joie de vivre of French painters, and in particular by the work of younger artists such as Edouard Pignon, he slowly moved into the Cubist style.

The poetic Corneille was also strongly influenced by Miró and Klee.

But he claimed the most profound connection to van Gogh because of their shared passion for color, form and nature.

After the group dissolved in 1951 he moved to Paris and began collecting African art. These primitive artifacts became evident in his works, which began to take on a more imaginative style, like landscapes seen from a bird’s eye view, exotic birds and stylised forms. Corneille was best known for radicalizing the conservative Dutch art world in the early 1950s, making modern art not only acceptable, but embraceable as well. He placed familiar subjects such as birds, cats, women and landscapes in mythological and often childlike contexts, imbuing them with spontaneity and bright, sensual colors (often orange and red)..

Until his death Corneille lived and worked in Paris, made visits to Israel where he worked with the Jaffa Atalier. On 24 September 2003 an exhibition of his prints opened at the Ramat-Gan Museum of Art, Israel. He died at Auvers-sur-Oise, France and was buried at the local cemetary where Van Gogh was also buried in 1890..

Beyond the Netherlands, Corneille’s work is in the collections of several American museums, including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Centre Pompidou in Paris France.

Artwork is in extreme fine condition