Lot 89
  • 89

Corneille (b. 1922)

Estimate
90,000 - 120,000 EUR
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Description

  • Corneille
  • L'Orchestre de Jazz Be-Bop (Hommage à Charlie Parker)
  • signed and dated 50; signed titled and dated 1950 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 59 by 70 cm.

Provenance

Galerie Nova Spectra, The Hague
Private Collection, Belgium

Literature

Claude Michel Cluny, Corneille, Paris 1992, p. 87, illustrated in colour

Condition

In mint condition.
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Catalogue Note

In 1947 Corneille discovered surrealism. The visionary poetry of Lautréamont and Rimbaud and the art of Paul Klee and Joan Miró made him receptive for an inner reality that he could express spontaneously. In 1950, moved to Paris, he drew on his imagination to create a new expressive reality.