Corneille - Platter - Ceramic

Corneille was born in Liège, Belgium, as the child of Dutch parents.
Although largely self-taught, he took art courses at the Amsterdam Rijksakademie between 1940 and 1942. In 1946 he held his first exhibition in Groningen.

Initially strongly influenced by Picasso's work, he shed this influence in 1948 and joined the Cobra movement; he was a co-founder, together with, among others, the Dutch artists Karel Appel, Jan Nieuwenhuijs, his brother Constant Nieuwenhuijs, and the Belgians Christian Dotremont and Joseph Noiret.
In 1950 he moved from Amsterdam to Paris, where he lived with photographer Henny Riemens (1928-1993) until 1968. The couple married in 1955 in Amsterdam and traveled repeatedly to other parts of the world: North Africa, North America, the Antilles, and South America. These travels largely determined the nature of his work. From 1960 he returned to figurative art, with women, birds, flowers and often characters forming part of his artistic vocabulary.

He himself claimed that painting is not a hobby or a job, but rather a vocation. In his later years, Corneille had his studio in Paris. Visitors were hardly tolerated by the artist. Corneille lived in seclusion at the Maison du Cedres in the French department of Val-d'Oise. He died on 5 September 2010. Corneille was buried in the cemetery at Auvers-sur-Oise, where Vincent van Gogh was buried in 1890.

Lot of six bowls with printed signatures. The bowls are in good condition and each measures 3 by 12 centimeters.