Corneille - "The bird born from the landscape"

Work by the artist Corneille published in 1992. In this work, Corneille's style is clearly recognizable. It gives a very good impression of how he visually shaped one of his many journeys through Africa during this period.

Image size 50 x 60 cm in wooden black frame (90 x 80 cm) with gold border with passepartout and fitted with perspex glass.

Corneille lived from 1922 to 2010 and was a pioneering painter and poet with many faces. In his early years he was a member and founder of the Cobra movement in the Netherlands together with his friend Karel Appel. With his work he shook up the traditional art world in the Netherlands at the time. His work of that time evokes the world of the child analogous to the expressionists such as Paul Klee and Joan Miro. In the period after 1950 the works are more abstract and inspired by the inhospitable landscape that he observed during his many travels through North Africa. From the mid-1960s he painted more figurative canvases based on colorful paradisiacal places that could count on the appreciation of a large audience.