Corneille - Corneille - Litho 1974 - The Flowers of Evil (at night) - 40/100 - potloodgesigned

• An original lithograph on paper by Corneille, produced in an edition of 100 copies in 1974.

from the series Les Fleurs du Mal.

Depicted in the Donkersloot (ouevre catalogue up to 1975 of Corneille's graphic work)
Dimensions: 41.5 x 31.5 cm.
Edition of 100 numbered copies.
Hand signed and numbered
Year of issue 1974.


Guillaume Cornelis Beverlo, better known as Corneille (3 July 1922), was born in Liège, Belgium, to Dutch parents. Although largely self-taught, he nevertheless took art courses at the Amsterdam Academy between 1940 and 1942. In 1946 he held his first exhibition in Groningen. Initially strongly influenced by the work of Picasso, he broke away from this in 1948 when he joined the CoBrA group; he was a co-founder of the group together with Karel Appel and the brothers Jan and Constant Nieuwenhuys. In 1950 he moved from Amsterdam to Paris. He then travelled abroad several times: to North Africa, the Sahara, North America, the Antilles and South America. These journeys largely determined the nature of his work. From 1960 onwards he fell back on a new figuration, in which birds, flowers and often characters were part of his artistic vocabulary. Corneille is still as industrious as the Corneille of old. He himself claims that painting is not a hobby or a job, but rather a calling. Corneille had his studio in the French capital Paris. Visitors were hardly tolerated by the artist.
Lithographs are shipped flat.