Corneille Art
Belgian, 1922-2010
The Dutch artist Corneille created lyrical, expressionist paintings bursting with color and was one of the founders of the postwar European art movement known as Cobra.
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 — birds, cats, women and landscapes — in mythological and often childlike contexts, imbuing them with spontaneity and bright, sensual reds.
"I am a painter of joy," Corneille remarked at a 2007 exhibition of his work at the Cobra Museum, said Katja Weitering, the artistic director of the museum, in Amstelveen, near Amsterdam.
"He was really an artist for all people," she said. "He was open to the audience; he appeared in documentaries, on television, and frequently visited exhibitions. It's safe to say we consider him one of the most important modern artists of the postwar." In the Netherlands, she added, his fame and influence derived from the appeal of Cobra.
Born Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo to Dutch parents on July 3, 1922, in Liège, Belgium, Corneille was influenced by Miró, Picasso and Paul Klee but claimed the most profound connection to van Gogh because of their shared passion for color, form and nature.
Corneille founded Cobra in 1948 with five other artists, including his close friends Karel Appel and Constant Nieuwenhuys. The name was an acronym made up of the artists' home cities — Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam. The artists drew inspiration from surrealism, but believed that style promoted too much discussion and not enough action.
Instead, Corneille and his friends formed a united front in postwar Europe, urging a break from tradition and toward freedom and vitality. In an intense three years, Cobra produced two major international exhibitions and published 10 issues of a magazine for which Corneille wrote poetry. Cobra disbanded in 1951, saying it had achieved its goals, and the artists returned to their individual careers.
Corneille began his artistic life in 1940, studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. Though he made his home base in Paris in the early 1950s, he traveled extensively in Africa, Cuba, Brazil, and Mexico. In Africa he became fascinated by the colors, smells and cultures, Ms. Weitering said, collecting brightly painted objects like the masks he later used as themes. He also spent time in Italy, Israel and San Francisco, expanding his repertory to include etching, ceramics and printmaking.
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.(Biography provided by Lincoln Glenn)
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Artist: Corneille
Fight on the moon
By Corneille
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Sublime and rare portfolio including the piece Combat on the moon with the accompanying lithographs of Corneille.
Fight on the moon
1987
Complete portfoli...
Category
1980s Corneille Art
Materials
Lithograph
L' Arbre à L'Oiseau Signed Lithograph, Abstract Exotic Bird Blue Trees Mask Face
By Corneille
Located in Union City, NJ
L' Arbre à L'Oiseau is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the Dutch artist known as CORNEILLE(Guillaume van Beverloo) an abstract expressionist who co-founded the 20th Century experimental art movement CoBrA recognized for their spontaneous, rebellious style of painting that was heavily inspired by the art of children and the mentally ill. Corneille devises his colorful fantastic imagery with exotic plant forms, sensuous female bodies, animals and lively pattern design. In L' Arbre à L'Oiseau the viewer is presented with a dream-like landscape scene featuring a multicolored abstract exotic bird plumed in red, green, back and blue soaring across a yellow sky amid bold blue trees; a white and blue masked face profile peering from the composition's right edge.
Print size - 23.25 x 19.75 in. unframed, vivid colors, pencil signed by Corneille
Edition size - 200, plus proofs
Year published - 1981
Printer - JK Fine Art Editions Co., NY
About the artist Corneille -
Guillaume Corneille was born in Liege, Belgium on July 3, 1922.
Corneille studied drawing at the Amsterdam Rijksakademie, but as a painter he was entirely self-taught. After having attended courses at the School of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, he started his painting experience influenced by Surrealism. Corneille, also known as Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, was a painter and graphic artist who radicalized the conservative Dutch art world in the early 1950s. He is co-founder with Karel Appel, Eugene...
Category
1980s Expressionist Corneille Art
Materials
Lithograph
La Femme masque comme pour une fete, Lithograph by Corneille
By Corneille
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Corneille, Belgian (1922 - )
Title: La Femme masque comme pour une fete
Year: 1977
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: HC 4/15
Size: 26 in. x 19.5 in. ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Corneille Art
Materials
Lithograph
L'Ouverture Sur L'Été, Hand Drawn Lithograph, Green Female Nude Exotic Blue Bird
By Corneille
Located in Union City, NJ
L'Ouverture sur L' Été is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph by the Dutch artist known as CORNEILLE(Guillaume van Beverloo) an abstract expressionist who co-founded the 20th Century experimental art movement CoBrA recognized for their spontaneous, rebellious style of painting that was heavily inspired by the art of children and the mentally ill. Corneille devises his colorful fantastic imagery with exotic plant forms, sensuous female bodies, animals and lively pattern design. L'Ouverture sur L' Été depicts a bold reclining female nude whose mint green body with cobalt blue delineated details and face rests upon a deep green background amidst the heat of summer - red horizon with blazing yellow sun and an exotic blue bird hovering above.
Print size - 19.5 x 25.5 inches, unframed, full bleed image, no margins, pencil signed by Corneille
Edition size - 200
Year published - 1981
About the artist Corneille -
Guillaume Corneille was born in Liege, Belgium on July 3, 1922.
Corneille studied drawing at the Amsterdam Rijksakademie, but as a painter he was entirely self-taught. After having attended courses at the School of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, he started his painting experience influenced by Surrealism. Corneille, also known as Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, was a painter and graphic artist who radicalized the conservative Dutch art world in the early 1950s. He is co-founder with Karel Appel, Eugene Brands...
Category
1980s Expressionist Corneille Art
Materials
Lithograph
Grande terre à l’arc-en-ciel
By Corneille
Located in Malmo, SE
Published by edition GKM.
Unframed.
Edition: 250 ex
Paper: 300gr. Goya.
Signed by the artist.
Free shipment worldwide.
Corneille, one of the founders of the COBRA group, has passe...
Category
1990s Contemporary Corneille Art
Materials
Screen
Dialouge amoureux
By Corneille
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM.
Unframed.
Edition of 250 ex.
Signed, dated and numbered.
Free shipment worldwide.
Corneille, one of the founders of the COBRA group, has passed away. He died in Paris...
Category
1990s Contemporary Corneille Art
Materials
Screen
Image D'un Été (Image of Summer) Signed Lithograph, Female Nude, Blue Hair, Bird
By Corneille
Located in Union City, NJ
Image D'un Été is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Somerset paper, 100% acid free, by the Dutch artist known as CORNEILLE(Guillaume van Beverloo) an abstract expressionist who co-founded the 20th Century experimental art movement CoBrA recognized for their spontaneous, rebellious style of painting that was heavily inspired by the art of children and the mentally ill. Corneille devises his colorful fantastic imagery with exotic plant forms, sensuous female bodies, animals and lively pattern design. Image D'un Été confronts the viewer with a bold erotic red female nude with blue hair and an exotic tropical bird soaring beneath the heat of a blazing red orange sun.
Print size - 23.25 x 19.75 in. unframed, vivid colors, pencil signed by Corneille
Edition size - 200, plus proofs
Year published - 1981
Printer - JK Fine Art Editions Co., NY
About the artist Corneille -
Guillaume Corneille was born in Liege, Belgium on July 3, 1922.
Corneille studied drawing at the Amsterdam Rijksakademie, but as a painter he was entirely self-taught. After having attended courses at the School of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, he started his painting experience influenced by Surrealism. Corneille, also known as Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, was a painter and graphic artist who radicalized the conservative Dutch art world in the early 1950s. He is co-founder with Karel Appel, Eugene Brands...
Category
1980s Expressionist Corneille Art
Materials
Lithograph
Femme et faune familière
By Corneille
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM.
Portfolio with 10 engravings.
Unframed.
Edition of 100 ex.
Signed, dated and numbered.
Free shipment worldwide.
Corneille, one of the founders of the COBRA group, has...
Category
1970s Contemporary Corneille Art
Materials
Engraving
Vol d'oiseaux
By Corneille
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM.
Unframed.
Edition of 200 ex.
Paper: 300gr. Goya.
Signed, dated and numbered.
Corneille, one of the founders of the COBRA group, has passed away.
He died in Paris on Sunday, 5 September 2010 aged 88 years.
Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo was born in 1922 in Liège, Belgium, to Dutch parents. After leaving school, he studied drawing at the Academy of Arts in Amsterdam from 1940 to 1943. As a painter, however, he was an autodidact.
His first exhibition was in 1946 in Groningen in the Netherlands, together with artists from the Dutch experimental group, Reflex.
Corneille first visited Paris in 1946 and felt immediately at home in the art metropolis. Together with Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, Dotremont and Constant, he founded the COBRA group in Paris 1948. Many other artists, poets and architects later joined the group, including the Swedish artists C-O Hultén, Max Walter Svanberg and Anders...
Category
1990s Contemporary Corneille Art
Materials
Screen
LES DEUX AMIES Signed Lithograph, Two Friends Portrait, Dark Mauve, Periwinkle
By Corneille
Located in Union City, NJ
Les Deux Amies is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph printed in 13 colors on archival Somerset paper 100% acid, free, by the Dutch artist known as CORNEILLE(Guillaume van Beverloo) an abstract expressionist who co-founded the 20th Century experimental art movement CoBrA recognized for their spontaneous, rebellious style of painting that was heavily inspired by the art of children and the mentally ill. Corneille devises his colorful fantastic imagery with exotic plant forms, sensuous female bodies, animals and lively pattern design. Les Deux Amies is a fantastical red outlined portrait of two people; one a frontally posed female depicted with a bright blue, wavy wedge hairdo and dark mauve face. Her colorful mask...
Category
1980s Expressionist Corneille Art
Materials
Lithograph
Image d’un été.
By Corneille
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM.
Unframed.
Edition: 200 ex
Paper: 300gr. Goya.
Signed, dated and numbered.
Corneille, one of the founders of the COBRA group, has passed away. He died in Paris on Sund...
Category
1990s Contemporary Corneille Art
Materials
Screen
La Femme au Paupieres Peints, Lithograph by Corneille
By Corneille
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Corneille, Belgian (1922 - )
Title: La Femme au paupieres peints
Year: 1977
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: HC 4/15
Size: 26 in. x 19.5 in. (6...
Category
1970s Contemporary Corneille Art
Materials
Lithograph
Dans l'infinie verticalite de l'herbe la femme, Lithograph by Corneille
By Corneille
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Corneille, Belgian (1922 - )
Title: Dans l'infinie verticalite de l'herbe la femme
Year: 1977
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: HC 4/15
Size: 26...
Category
1970s Expressionist Corneille Art
Materials
Lithograph
Soleil levant
By Corneille
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM.
Unframed.
Edition of 150 ex.
Paper: 300gr. Goya.
Signed, dated and numbered.
Free shipment worldwide.
Corneille, one of the founders of the COBRA group, has passed aw...
Category
1980s Contemporary Corneille Art
Materials
Screen
Aurore
By Corneille
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM.
Unframed.
Edition of 250 ex.
Paper: 300gr. Goya.
Signed, dated and numbered.
Free shipment worldwide.
Corneille, one of the founders of the COBRA group, has passed aw...
Category
1990s Contemporary Corneille Art
Materials
Screen
Fenêtre ouverte sur le paysage
By Corneille
Located in Malmo, SE
Published by edition GKM.
Unframed.
Edition: 250 ex
Paper: 300gr. Goya.
Signed by the artist.
Free shipment worldwide.
Corneille, one of the founders of the COBRA group, has passe...
Category
1990s Contemporary Corneille Art
Materials
Screen
L’amour au jour le jour II
By Corneille
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM.
Portfolio with 3 silkscreens.
Unframed.
Edition of 150 ex.
Signed, dated and numbered.
Free shipment worldwide.
Corneille, one of the founders of the COBRA group, has...
Category
1990s Contemporary Corneille Art
Materials
Screen
SOUS LES PALMIERS Signed Lithograph, Female Nude, Exotic Landscape, Palm Trees
By Corneille
Located in Union City, NJ
SOUS LES PALMIERS is an original hand drawn limited edition lithograph printed in vivid colors on archival Somerset paper 100% acid free by the Dutch artist known as CORNEILLE(Guilla...
Category
1980s Expressionist Corneille Art
Materials
Lithograph
L'oiseau familier
By Corneille
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM.
Unframed.
Edition: 250 ex
Paper: 300gr. Goya.
Signed, dated and numbered.
Corneille, one of the founders of the COBRA group, has passed away.
He died in Paris on Sund...
Category
1990s Contemporary Corneille Art
Materials
Screen
Eté ardent
By Corneille
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM.
Unframed.
Edition: 250 ex
Paper: 300gr. Goya.
Signed, dated and numbered.
Corneille, one of the founders of the COBRA group, has passed away.
He died in Paris on Sund...
Category
1990s Contemporary Corneille Art
Materials
Screen
Les derniers feux du soleil
By Corneille
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM.
Unframed.
Edition of 200 ex
Paper: 300gr. Goya.
Signed, dated and numbered.
Corneille, one of the founders of the COBRA group, has passed away.
He died in Paris on S...
Category
1990s Contemporary Corneille Art
Materials
Screen
Le doux félin de l’été
By Corneille
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM.
Unframed.
Edition of 200 ex
Signed,dated and numbered by the artist.
Free shipment worldwide.
Corneille, one of the founders of the COBRA group, has passed away.
He ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Corneille Art
Materials
Screen
Tribute to Wesselmann : Woman and Dog - Original handsigned lithograph
By Corneille
Located in Paris, FR
Corneille
Tribute to Wesselmann : Woman and Dog, 1975
Original lithograph
Handsigned
Numbered I / XVI
On vellum 70 x 50 cm (c. 28 x 20 inch)
Very goo...
Category
1970s Surrealist Corneille Art
Materials
Lithograph
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