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Karel AppelHAPPY COUPLE I Signed Lithograph, Abstract Portrait, Yellow, Blue, Black, Red1978
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HAPPY COUPLE I is a limited edition lithograph by the Dutch artist Karel Appel printed in 1978 in New York City using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival printmaking paper, 100% acid free. HAPPY COUPLE I is a lively, imaginative, abstract portrait depicting 2 multi color faces comprised of red, blue, light blue and black surrounded by brightly colored painted brush strokes. The 2 faces appear as abstract animal-like creatures amidst a backdrop of predominantly yellow with touches of lime green, lavender, white. Karel Appel was one of the founders of the avant-garde art movement CoBrA, active during the late 1940's thru early 1950's. His paintings are known for incorporating applications of vibrant, violent colors often possessing a primal, childlike quality.
Print size - 21.5 x 29.5 inches, full bleed image, no margins, unframed, mint condition, pencil signed by Karel Appel
Edition size - 175, plus proofs
Year published - 1978
Karel Appel was one of the founders of the avant-garde art movement CoBrA, active during the late 1940's thru early 1950's. His paintings are known for incorporating applications of vibrant, violent colors often possessing a primal, childlike quality.
Karel Appel, (born April 25, 1921, Amsterdam, Netherlands—died May 3, 2006, Zürich, Switzerland), Dutch painter of turbulent, colorful, and semi-abstract compositions, who was a co-founder (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:1978
- Dimensions:Height: 21.5 in (54.61 cm)Width: 29.5 in (74.93 cm)
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- Condition:Excellent condition, never been framed or mounted, pencil signed and dedicated Printers Proof aside from the edition of 175. Printers chop embossed on lower left corner, from the master printers private collection.
- Gallery Location:Union City, NJ
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU83235547221
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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