Corneille - Platter - Ceramic

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

Initially strongly influenced by the work of Picasso, he freed himself from it in 1948 and joined the Cobra movement; he was one of its co-founders, together with, among others, the Dutch 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 trips largely determined the nature of his work. From 1960 he returned to figurative art, in which women, birds, flowers and often characters constitute his artistic vocabulary.

He himself claimed that painting is not a hobby or a job, but more of a vocation. In the last years Corneille had his studio in Paris. Visitors were hardly tolerated by the artist. Corneille lived withdrawn in the Maison du Cedres in the French department of Val-d'Oise.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 buried in 1890 as well.

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