Cornelius/Original work "Ashanti doll from Ghana". India ink and pastel on paper. Signed and dated 2000. Rare. TBE+. Original frame with protective glass included: 40 X 65 cm. A certificate of the Cornelius foundation accompanies the work. Cornelius, pseudonym of Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, born in 1922 in Liege (Belgium), of Dutch parents, and died in Auvers-sur-Oise (Val-d'Oise) in 2010, is a Dutch painter, engraver, sculptor and ceramist. He is buried according to his wish next to Vincent van Gogh in the cemetery of Auvers-sur-Oise. Corneille began exhibiting in 1946, then discovered surrealism. Co-founder in 1948 with Karel Appel of the movement "Experimentele Groep in Holland" which publishes the magazine Reflex, anticipating the magazine Cobra which was to appear the following year in Denmark, Belgium, then in the Netherlands. He is one of the initiators of Cobra with Karel Appel, Constant Nieuwenhuis, Asger Jorn and Dotremont. After moving towards abstraction after the break-up of the CoBrA group in 1951, Corneille returned to figuration in the early 1960s. Impressed by the luxuriance of nature in some of the countries he visited (Africa, South America, Mexico...), he returned to the expressionist and passionate vocabulary of the CoBrA period. In his recent works, full of lyricism, the woman (who would represent the earth in the language of the artist), the bird (the male element and the artist himself), the sun and the snake (symbols of the female and male sex) as well as the cat are omnipresent.