Corneille (1922-2010) - Suite aux Herbes

Exceptional work, in which the painter Cobra, close to Gaston Bachelard’s ideas, celebrates harmony with nature.
Nature in Corneille’s work is, moreover, omnipresent as in a Van Gogh painting.

Old work from 1977 with Atelier Corneille stamp on the back. Artist’s proof EA
Ancient lithograph made 50 years ago.

Original lithograph by the painter Guillaume Corneille (born 1922) born in Liège of Dutch parents and a founding member of the Cobra group with Asger Jorn, Karel Appel, Constant, Dotremont, Jacques Doucet, and Alechinsky, among others. It is a trial impression used as a model for the edition of the lithograph.

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"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 retained from his childhood a vivid memory of a small garden perched on the heights of his native city. It is there that he is enamored with green, the grass, the plumage and the ramages of birds, the flight of insects, in short 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 Persian tradition, whether one thinks of the Aztecs or the Egyptians, the garden always appears not only as a sort of restoration of a vanished Eden, but also as a summary of the cosmos. The Garden is not only nature tamed 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.