Pavane pour une infante défunte – Hommage à Maurice Ravel. 1949.
Oil on panel.
Signed and dated in lower right. Signature and date scratched into the moist paint parallel to the left edge (barely legible). 50 x 40 cm (19.6 x 15.7 in).

• A particularly early painting from the first days of the "CoBrA" period.
• The co-founder of the "CoBrA" group is considered one of the most important post-war artists of the Netherlands.
• Works by Corneille can be found at, among others, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• He participated in documenta II in 1959 and documenta III in 1964.

Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Fondation Guillaume Corneille, Brussels.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Northern Germany.

LITERATURE: Auktion i Kunsthallen, art auction 367 Cobra 1948 - 1988, Copenhagen, February 24, 1988, lot 27, p. 34, color illu. p 35.