Corneille - Beautiful Epreuve d'Artiste Lithograph "female nude & yellow bird" - 1998 - signed. - Sold

• You are bidding on an original Epreuve d'Artiste lithograph "female nude and yellow bird" made by Corneille in 1998. Signed in pencil by the artist. Is in good condition with fresh colours. Placed in passe partout - NOT framed.

Guillaume Cornelis Beverloo, better known as Corneille, was born in Liège on July 3, 1922. Corneille was a COBRA painter. Although largely self-taught, he still took art courses at the Amsterdam Academy 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 is its co-founder, together with Karel Appel, Jan Nieuwenhuijs and his brother Constant Nieuwenhuijs, among others. In 1950 he moved from Amsterdam to Paris. He then traveled several times to other parts of the world: North Africa, North America, the Antilles and South America. These trips largely determine the nature of his work. From 1960 he fell back on figurative art, in which women, birds, flowers and often characters belong to his artistic vocabulary.