Corneille
Corneille (1922-)
Corneille was born Corneille Guillaume Beverloo on July 3, 1922, in Liège, Belgium, of Dutch parents. From 1940 to 1943 he studied drawing at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. His first one-man show was held in 1946 at Het Beerenhuis in Groningen, The Netherlands. Corneille visited Hungary the following year, returning to The Netherlands in 1948 to co-found the Nederlandse Experimentele Groep (NEG), which published the periodical Reflex, and the COBRA movement, which included Jorn, Appel, Constant, Christian Dotremont and Joseph Noiret. On his return from travels in North Africa Corneille participated in the 1949 NEG and COBRA exhibitions at the Galerie Colette Allendy in Paris and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
In 1950 the artist settled permanently in Paris and began exhibiting at the Salon de Mai. He studied etching with Stanley William Hayter in 1953 in Paris, and ceramics with Tullio Mazzotti in Albisola, Italy, during the summers of 1954 and 1955. Corneille received the Guggenheim International Award for The Netherlands in 1956, the year of his first one-man exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. In 1957 he participated in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in Paris. He traveled extensively during this period, visiting Africa, South America, The Netherlands Antilles and the United States.
In 1962 Corneille was given his first solo exhibition in New York at the Lefebre Gallery, where he has since shown frequently. During the next four summers he worked on gouaches in the Spanish coastal town of Cadaques. A Corneille retrospective was held at the Musee d'Antibes, France, in 1963. In 1968 he executed mosaics in Vela-Luka, Yugoslavia. Among his many one-man shows during the 197oS were those presented at Milan's Galleria d' Arte and the Museu de Arte of São Paulo in 1975, at Galerie Espace in Amsterdam in 1977 and at the Galleria CM in Rome and the Galerie Kände Malåra, Jönköping, Sweden, in 1978. Corneille now lives and works in Paris.
-Vivian Endicott Barnett, Peggy Guggenheim Collection
![La femme aux paupières peintes prête ses formes rondes aux dures lames de l'herbe [The Woman with Painted Eyelids Lends Her Round Forms to the Hard Blades of the Grass] from the portfolio L'Enchantement de l'été [The Enchantment of Summer]](/internal/media/dispatcher/822/thumbnail)
![Dans l'infinie verticalité de l'herbe la femme naturellement s'horizontalise [In the Infinite Verticality of the Grass the Woman Naturally Horizontalises] from the portfolio L'Enchantement de l'été [The Enchantment of Summer]](/internal/media/dispatcher/823/thumbnail)
![Délire et foisonnement de cette plage végétale infiniment mouvante [Delirium and Abundance of this Infinitely Moving Plant Beach] from the portfolio L'Enchantement de l'été [The Enchantment of Summer]](/internal/media/dispatcher/824/thumbnail)
![La femme masquée comme pour une fête, fête de l'herbe, fête de l'oiseau [The Masked Woman as for a Festival, Grass Festival, Bird Festival] from the portfolio L'Enchantement de l'été [The Enchantment of Summer]](/internal/media/dispatcher/825/thumbnail)
![Le grand champ de l'herbe, lieu electif pour un dialogue de la femme avec les oiseaux [The Large Field of Grass, Elective Place for a Dialogue of the Woman with the Birds] from the portfolio L'Enchantement de l'été [The Enchantment of Summer]](/internal/media/dispatcher/826/thumbnail)
![Avant que la lune n'apparaisse le soleil déverse son sang sur l'herbe [Before the Moon Appears the Sun Pours Its Blood on the Grass] from the portfolio L'Enchantement de l'été [The Enchantment of Summer]](/internal/media/dispatcher/827/thumbnail)