Corneille (1922-2010) - Evasion

Artist's proof with the Atelier Corneille stamp on the back, signed in ink by the painter. Commercial edition limited to 150 copies. 66 x 50 cm.

Great Master of color in the wake of Gauguin and Matisse, Guillaume Corneille creates a jovial world imbued with exoticism. A traveling artist, Corneille, thanks to his friend Alan Davie, crosses paths with David Hockney on the London scene. Both painters erudite, they share the same taste for color, the same sense of simplifying the line, and the same constancy in nodding to the history of art of past centuries and to their own history.