Corneille sculpture at Kass/Meridian

Corneille (1922-2010), These hand-painted wood sculptures are a wonderful three-dimensional representation of the playful imagery that appears frequently in Corneille's naturalistic art, and embodies the artist's love of nature and the objects of nature which make up the images of so many of his artworks.
During the 1950’s, Corneille was a leading figure in the European CoBrA movement, a movement related to the Abstract Expressionist movement in the United States, and which was named after Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam, the capital cities of the founding members’ home countries.

Corneille traveled extensively and was strongly influenced by ethnographic art, including African iconography. He is a prolific printmaker and has produced graphic portfolios with writers and poets, including the Mexican writer and diplomat Octavio Paz.
Corneille participated in the Venice Biennale, the São Paulo Biennale and Germany’s Kassel Dokumenta. His work is held in prominent public collections worldwide, including Paris’ Centre Pompidou, Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.