Corneille (1922-2010) - Herbes

Superb large-format work by Guillaume Corneille.

Original lithograph signed in graphite by the artist. Artist's proof

Paper: Arches - Only a few copies were printed in this version.

Paper size: 66 x 50 cm
Very good condition.


"The work of Corneille 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 situated on the heights of his hometown. It is there that he became enamored with the green of the grass, the plumes and the ramages of birds, the flight of insects, in short with everything in nature that seems beneficial to humans and which, in his own way, every garden symbolises.
Whether one thinks of the Canticle of Canticles 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 the tamed nature 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.