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Karel AppelSUMMER COUPLE Signed Lithograph, Abstract Portrait, CoBrA Artist1979
1979
$3,850
£2,956.63
€3,388.27
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NOK 40,204.23
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DKK 25,289.09
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SUMMER COUPLE is a rarely seen, original limited edition lithograph by the Dutch artist Karel Appel printed using hand lithography techniques on Somerset paper, 100% acid free.
SUMMER COUPLE presents a lively, imaginative, multi color abstract portrait depicting a paint stroke representation of a googly-eyed couple positioned side by side against a muted yellow background. Bold color paint strokes form their bodies and legs in a vibrant color combination of lavender, blue, yellow red, black, green and touches of 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, unframed, excellent condition, hand signed and dedicated in pencil by Karel Appel
Edition size - 160, plus proofs
Year published - 1979
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:1979
- Dimensions:Height: 21.5 in (54.61 cm)Width: 29.5 in (74.93 cm)
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- Condition:A rarely seen Karel Appel image, excellent condition, unframed, full bleed image, fresh vivid colors, pencil signed by Appel, dedicated Printer's Proof aside from the edition of 160, from the master printers private collection.
- Gallery Location:Union City, NJ
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU832314416512
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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