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Karel Appel More Art

Dutch, 1921-2006
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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Artist: Karel Appel
Smiling together
Smiling together

Smiling together

By Karel Appel

Located in Östermalm, Stockholms län

Edition of 10 ex individual tapestries are unnumbered. Artist’s signature woven into the tapestry, lower left corner. Handwoven silk tapestry. Published by: Modern Masters Tapestries...

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Painted Book
Painted Book

Painted Book

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Karel Appel (1921-2006) was an important contributor / sddisruptor in the evolution of 20th-century abstraction and one of the founders of the COBRA movement. Appel grew up in Amste...

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