CORNEILLE
(Cornelis van Beverloo)
(1922-2010)
He was born in Liège, Belgium and moved to The Netherlands with his Dutch family at the age of 12 .
There he studied drawing at the Academy of Art in Amsterdam. As a painter he was a self-taught abstract expressionist. Also a printmaker and ceramist. 
Later moved to Paris living there until his dead.
I met him a couple of times and I may say that he was an optimist for life. A very kind person, a poet as a painter.
We easily can see that optimism, that joy in his lyrical paintings. 
In the early works he had certain affinities with Miró and Klee, but his later works show a departure from this style to, what I may consider, the result of the influence in African Art.
In a single work he comprises, with vibrant colors, birds, cats, plants, exotic symbols  and,  of course, women. And for Corneille the woman's body is a source of mistery and desire. 
He co-founded with Karel Appel and Constant the experimental Reflex group and later, in 1948, the group CoBrA, one of the most significant post-war art movements of the 20th century.

"China Suite V", 2004

"Fete nocturne"

"Dario della Torre II", 2003,  acryl op doek

"Le Divan Blue", 1979

 "Le Theatre Chiron",  1969