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Karel Appel
Karel Appel Abstract Original Color Lithograph, 1969

1969

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Original Abstract Color lithograph by Dutch artist Karel Appel (1921-2006). Created 1969. Edition size is 53 of 200. The work is signed in pencil lower right. The image size is: 25 5/8 x 19 3/4. The sheet size is: 30 x 22. The print is in excellent condition, unmounted and unframed with strong fresh color. Karel Appel was a painter and printmaker born in 1921 in Amsterdam, Holland; his father was a barber. He studied at the Royal Academy in Amsterdam in 1940-43. An action painter, Appel gives full rein to his violent expressionism in numerous mural compositions. In 1946 his first solo show was held in Groningen, the Netherlands, and he participated in the Jonge Schilders exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam. About this time Appel was influenced first by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, then by Jean Dubuffet. In 1948 Karel Appel founded Nederlandse Experimentele Group together with among others Constant, Corneille and Eugene Brands, and later that year he was one of six who signed the manifest of the COBRA movement in Paris. Dutch-born Karel Appel was part of the original CoBrA group (Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam) whose works were characterized by bold expressionist forms and raw, intense colors. From 1940 to 1943 Appel studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. By 1951, when he painted a mural for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, he had earned an important place in the art world. His sculpture, paintings, and prints, thickly layered with color, have a childlike quality about them, but new possibilities present themselves at each viewing. In 1958 Appel established residence in Paris, and in 1959 he moved to New York. He won the UNESCO prize at the Venice Biennale in 1952, in 1956 the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam commissioned a large public mural from him which was accepted after considerable public controversy. He was the youngest artist awarded first prize at the Guggenheim international exhibition in 1960. Beside his large production of paintings Karel Appel created graphic works and illustrations, sculptures, ceramic works and large decorations of buildings and rooms. With his colors and childish lines Karel Appel seduces most of us, because we recognize the childhood and the fantasy in his pictures. His unspoiled motifs of children and animals in this period are depicted with strong and bright colors surrounded by sharp black outlines.
  • Creator:
    Karel Appel (1921 - 2006, Dutch)
  • Creation Year:
    1969
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)Depth: 0.08 in (2.04 mm)
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  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Phoenix, AZ
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: p52751stDibs: LU2749214651622

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