As his name suggests, Corneille is Dutch by stock, son of Maria Cornelia Goosen and Cornelis Willem Beverloo, but born in Liège in Belgium on July 4, 1922. Guillaume Cornelis Beverloo will be Corneille, his artist name and so to speak his monogram, he who makes crows and birds hover schematically as a symbol of the masculine and desire on his large figurative paintings of his last years ( Le Grand Nu bleu , 1980, L'Oiseau des îles , 1984, or Confidence à l ' bird, 1985). Corneille is a fiery young man who left the Beaux-Arts in Amsterdam in 1943, too academic, who saw in Matisse a decorator and in Van Gogh a bad designer, to become this self-taught painter who valiantly brews pure color and took off for the world, from Mexico to Michel Leiris' L'Afrique fantôme , in 1948. He will keep his taste for freedom and space. A certain jubilation of painting (Le Voyage du grand soleil rouge , 1963, Stedelijk Museum
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