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    Sale 2822

    Post-War and Contemporary Art

    Amsterdam

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    17 June 2009

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    • Corneille (BELGIAN, B. 1922)
    Lot 103

    Corneille (BELGIAN, B. 1922)

    Le hiboux

    Price realised

    EUR 2,750

    Estimate

    EUR 2,000 - EUR 3,000

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    Corneille (BELGIAN, B. 1922)
    Le hiboux
    signed and dated 'Corneille '86' (lower right)
    ink, gouache and pencil on paper
    23.5 x 31 cm. (2)

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Michel Ragon, Corneille toujours en route, Mälmo 1991, p. 38-40 (ill.)


    Exhibited

    Malmö, Galleri GKM Siwert Bergström, Images de bêtes, 13 September-14 November 1986 (ill.)
    Copenhagen, Galleri Asbaek, 1987.


    Lot Essay

    This lot will be sold with the book Images de bêtes, published by Siwert Bergström, Malmö 1986.

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    Pre-Lot Text

    IMAGES DE BÊTES (lot 103-114)

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