Corneille (1922-2010) Lot n° 68

Femme et faune familière 1978 Lithograph on paper, signed and dated lower right, numbered 38/100 lower left 76 x 57 cm "Since 1945, Corneille has been involved in all aspects of painting, from the founding scandal of the Cobra years in the aftermath of the war, to the revival of figuration that distinguished his work at the turn of the 1970s. (...) If, in the 1940s, Corneille was one of the young painters who wanted to break with the tradition of Western painting inherited from the 19th century, he was already following in the footsteps of the pioneers of modernism such as Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and, above all, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, whom he particularly admired." Victor Vanoosten