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 Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, between 1940 and 1942. In 1946 he held his first exhibition in Groningen.

Initially strongly influenced by Picasso's work, he freed himself from this in 1948 and joined the Cobra movement; he is one of its co-founders, together with, among others, the Dutchmen 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 the photographer Henny Riemens (1928-1993) until 1968. The couple married in 1955 in Amsterdam and traveled several times 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, in which women, birds, flowers and often characters belong to 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 reclusively in 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 also buried in 1890.

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