Live Auction 14078Post-War and Contemporary Art
Corneille (1922-2010)
Lot 54

Corneille (1922-2010)

Le Guerrier (The Warrior)

Closed12 April 2017

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EUR 62,500

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Corneille (1922-2010)
Le Guerrier (The Warrior)
signed and dated 'Corneille 49' (upper right)
oil on canvas
59.5 x 50cm.
Painted in 1949

Henny Riemens Collection, Paris (acquired directly from the artist).
Private Collection, The Netherlands.
Robinsons Art Gallery, Knokke.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998.

Specialist note

'As a child, I love to lie stretched out in the grass in a small garden. My eyes buried in the greenery. Green, green, everywhere just green. My eyes following different flying objects above the green. Flights on various levels – there the yellow and black striped wasp, there a yellow butterfly, right up there a bird… In that garden of my childhood, summer never came to an end.’ — CORNEILLE