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Karel Appel
ORANGE PERSONAGE Signed Lithograph, Abstract Cat Portrait, Bold Color Collage

1980

About the Item

Orange Personage is an original limited edition lithograph by the Dutch artist Karel Appel printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches printmaking paper, 100% acid free. Orange Personage is a bold abstract portrait featuring a bold color palette of bright orange, black, forest green, reds, purple, yellow, gray, blue and hints of white. Orange Personage portrays a cat-like face drawn with black paint stroke facial features and arms; collage effect torn paper bits compose the animal body form. Orange Personage is a playful, wild abstract portrait by Karel Appel, 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 - 30 x 22 inches, unframed, excellent condition, pencil signed by Karel Appel Edition size - 175 Year published - 1980 Printed at JK Fine Art Editions Co. NYC 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. Artist bio - Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Creator:
    Karel Appel (1921 - 2006, Dutch)
  • Creation Year:
    1980
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Excellent condition, unframed, fresh vivid colors, pencil signed and dedicated Printers Proof aside from the edition of 175. Printers chop mark embossed on lower left, from the master printers private collection.
  • Gallery Location:
    Union City, NJ
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU83232761383
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