Corneille - Platter - Ceramic

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

Initially strongly influenced by Picasso's work, he broke away from this in 1948 and joined the Cobra movement; he was a co-founder, 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 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 journeys largely shaped 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 later years Corneille had his studio in Paris. He tolerated visitors only sparingly. Corneille lived reclusively in the Maison du Cedres in the French department of Val-d'Oise. He died on September 5, 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.