watercolour and ink on paper, signed and dated 'Corneille 49' upper right, signed, dated and annotated 'Route barrée' on the reverse of the backing board, 46,3 x 45 cm.

Exhibited: Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Cobra 1948/51, 20 May-17 July 1966, no. 95 (illustrated in b/w p. 65); Amstelveen, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Miró & Cobra: Experimenteel spel, 15 October 2015-31 January 2016, pp. 190/191 (illustrated in colour) and p. 217; Amstelveen, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Corneille en Noord-Afrika, 12 March 2022-15 January 2023; Literature: Christian Dotremont, Corneille, Bibliothèque de Cobra serie 1, no. 7, Copenhagen, 1950 (illustrated in b/w); Museumjournaal: themanummer Cobra, VII, no. 7/8, January/February 1962, p. 187 (illustrated in b/w); Bert Schierbeek, De experimentelen, Amsterdam, 1963, fig. 9b (illustrated in b/w); Willemijn Stokvis, "De Nederlandse Experimentelen en de Cobrabeweging", in Openbaar Kunstbezit, XI, 1967, p. 74b and p. 76, fig. 4 (illustrated in b/w); Erik Slagter, "Corneille, de dichtende schilder, vijftig jaar", in Ons Erfdeel, XV, 1972, p. 19 (illustrated in b/w); Willemijn Stokvis, Cobra, Amsterdam, 1985, pp. 190/191 (illustrated in b/w); Willemijn Stokvis, Cobra: de weg naar spontaniteit, Naarden, 2000, pp. 352/353, fig. 187 (illustrated in b/w); Willemijn Stokvis, Cobra: the last avant-grade movement of the twentieth century, London, 2004, pp. 278/279, fig. 187 (illustrated in b/w); Willemijn Stokvis, Cobra 1948-1951: terug naar de bronnen van kunst en leven, Zwolle, 2008, p. 188 and p. 192, fig. 106 (illustrated in colour); Willemijn Stokvis, Cobra: a history of a European avant-garde movement 1948-1951, Rotterdam, 2017, p. 276, fig. 290 (illustrated in colour)