Le Guerrier (The Warrior)

Details

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

Provenance

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.

Literature

H. Bellet, 'Corneille, Le Cobra à plumes', in L'Oeil: Revue d'art, no. 456, November 1993, pp. 65-71 (illustrated).

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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'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

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