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Karel AppelHAPPY COUPLE Signed Lithograph, Colorful Abstract Portrait, CoBrA Artist1979
1979
Price:$1,500
$1,998List Price
About the Item
- Creator:Karel Appel (1921 - 2006, Dutch)
- Creation Year:1979
- Dimensions:Height: 21.5 in (54.61 cm)Width: 29.5 in (74.93 cm)
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- Condition:Excellent condition, unframed, full bleed image, fresh vivid colors, pencil signed H.C.(Hors de Commerce Proof )aside from the edition of 175, from the master printers private collection.
- Gallery Location:Union City, NJ
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU83235431441
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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