Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo

Dutch artist of the COBRA movement better known as Corneille (1922-2010)

Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.

The record lists Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo as Dutch artist of the COBRA movement better known as Corneille (1922-2010).

Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo was born at Liège in 1922. His recorded nationality is Netherlands. He trained at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten.

Twentieth-century art was international, heavily theorised and increasingly conceptual, with the market growing alongside it.

He worked as painter, printmaker and sculptor.

His recorded movement is cobra.

An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.

Recognition followed: Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.

That the work was made in Netherlands shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.

Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo died in 2010, aged 88. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.

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