Corneille (1922-2010) - Femme entre Chat et Oiseau

Femme between Chat et Oiseau
Corneille
40x31 cm
screen printing
signed
1994

Corneille (1922-2010) was a painter and graphic artist who radicalized the conservative Dutch art world in the early 1950s. Together with five other influential artists, including Karel Appel and Constant, he founded the post-war European expressionist movement Co. Br. A in 1948. Corneille took drawing and etching courses at the Academy of Visual Arts in Amsterdam between 1940 and 1942, but is generally considered a self-taught painter. Initially strongly influenced by the work of Picasso, Corneille made abstract work. From the late sixties, Corneille's work took on a more figurative character. Birds, women and flowers are often the subjects in this work.