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Catalogue number: 1021
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Corneille (1922-2010)

Untitled (Sahara) (1953) and Postcard from Albisola (1954)

ink on paper, signed and dated 'Corneille '53' lower right, 17,7 x 20,2 cm. and a postcard from the artist to Aldo en Hannie van Eyck sent from Albisola, Italy on the 15th of August 1954 with the front highlighted with ink and gouache, 10,5 x 15 cm.

Literature: Aldo van Eyck, Niet om het even … wel evenwaardig, van en over Aldo van Eyck, Rotterdam, 1986, p. 43 (drawing only; illustrated in b/w)

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In the postcard written on the 15th of August 1954, the artist refers to the 'Incontro internazionale della ceramica' (International Ceramics meeting) which Asger Jorn had organized that summer in Albisola. Corneille writes that he is working in 'one of the largest ceramics factories', in the company of Asger Jorn, Roberto Matta and 'some other good Italian painters'.

Estimate: € 600 - € 800
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