Corneille (1922-2010) - Herbes

Magnificent large-format work by Guillaume Corneille.

Original lithograph signed in graphite by the artist.

Artist's proof EA - Stamp Atelier Corneille on the back

Paper: Arches - Artist's proof

Paper dimensions: 65 x 50 cm

Condition: Very good

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"Corneille's work is inseparable from nature. Corneille, whose real name is Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, is Dutch, but he was born in Belgium: in Liège, in 1922. He has kept from his childhood a vivid memory of a small garden perched on the heights of his hometown. It is there that he fell in love with the green of grass, the plumage and ramages of birds, the flight of insects, in short with everything in nature that seems beneficial to humans and that, in his own way, every garden symbolizes. Whether one thinks of the Song of Songs or of Persian tradition, whether one thinks of the Aztecs or the Egyptians, the garden always appears not only as a kind of restoration of a vanished Eden, but also as a summary of the cosmos. The Garden is not only nature domesticated for its visible beauty, it is also the earth as matrix, as nourishing"
Marcel Paquet, Corneille: Paintings and Gouaches, La Différence, 1989, page 7.
Guillaume Corneille was, in a sense, an "ecologist" painter avant la lettre.