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Drole de Drame
Lithograph, 1960
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil lower right
(see photos)
Edition: 120 (91/120)
Published by L’Ouevre Grave, Geneve (blindstamp recto)
Printed by Pons, Paris
Printed on BFK Rives paper
Condition: Excellent, fresh colors
Image size: 18 7/8 x 27 7/8"
Provenance: Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
David Andeerson Gallery
Note: Martha Jackson Gallery was Appel's first American dealer and a major supporter of the COBRA movement.
Karel Appel, (born April 25, 1921, Amsterdam, Netherlands—died May 3, 2006, Zürich, Switzerland), Dutch painter of turbulent, colourful, and semiabstract compositions, who was a cofounder (1948) of the COBRA group of northern European Expressionists. He was also a noted sculptor and graphic artist.
Appel attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Amsterdam (1940–43), and helped found the “Reflex” group, which became known as COBRA (for Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam), in 1948. He moved to Paris in 1950 and by the 1960s had settled in New York City; he later lived in Italy and Switzerland. Partly in reaction against what they perceived as the sterile academicism of the de Stijl movement, the COBRA artists assimilated a variety of more-impulsive influences, including folk art, children’s art, and l’art brut (“raw art”) of Jean Dubuffet. They exploited the spontaneity and intensity of the contemporary American Action painting while maintaining a degree of representation. Appel’s style is characterized by thick layering of pigment, violent brushwork, and a crude, reductive figuration.
Appel first visited the United States in 1957, where he painted portraits of prominent jazz musicians, including Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie. His public works include a mural in the UNESCO building in Paris. His figurative sculptures in wood and metal share with the paintings a brutal, imaginative expressionism.
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- Creator:Karel Appel (1921 - 2006, Dutch)
- Creation Year:1960
- Dimensions:Height: 22.13 in (56.22 cm)Width: 30.13 in (76.54 cm)
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- Condition:Very good, minor handling creases in image, colors fresh and unfaded, tape stains and thin spots verso from previous mounting.
- Gallery Location:Fairlawn, OH
- Reference Number:Seller: FA108651stDibs: LU14013124662
Karel Appel
Karel Appel was a founding member of COBRA, an art movement originating in Germany that strived to replicate and invoke the child’s approach to art. Within this movement he created abstracted and simplified figures, often monsters and fractured depictions of people.
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