Etching on Rives BFK Image : 139 mm x 90 mm - Total dimensions of the paper : 331 x 249 mm Dimensions with frame : 40,5 cm x 33,5 cm Atelier Leblanc, Paris Commercial edition at 20 copies. This is the n° 16/20 Stamp Atelier Corneille on the back. Work referenced in the catalog raisonné Donkersloot n°52, page 84 "Eclosion" is the testimony of a lived experience. Fascinated by the readings of Lévi-Strauss and the first film reports on Africa, Corneille (1922-2010) and his first wife Henny Riemens (1928-1992) embarked on the crazy project of crossing Africa from East to West, starting from the Niger River, over a period of several months from 1956 to 1957. Corneille experienced a black sun in the desert, in a geological landscape where the four elements merge. The mineral becomes vegetable and vice versa. "Eclosion" is both a sunrise and the description of the birth of a plant. In the catalog of the exhibition at Colette Allendy's in 1954, the art critic Charles Estienne identified in Corneille's work an "abstraction in germination", that is to say an abstraction in the making, never far from figuration, and called for the multiplicity of meanings. The black sun will be a recurring motif in the work of Cornelius. Secure shipping by UPS. 75 years of Cobra exhibition from June 1st at the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen. Exhibition of the largest American collection of Corneille in Miami in Spring and Summer 2023. Retrospective of Corneille which has just ended this January 15 at the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen. Release of a Cobra / Corneille stamp at Bpost in 2023 Corneille jewels exposed at the Boghossian Foundation until May 14, 2023 (Ornamentum, Diane Venet Collection)