Christiaan 'Karel' Appel
Amsterdam 1921-2006 Zürich (Zwitserland)
Windmill, wax crayons on paper 94,2 x 71,5 cm., signed l.r. and executed ca. 1984
1415816/Kh.bv
Price band: between 25.000 and 50.000 euro
Karel Appel was one of the leading figures of the post-war Cobra movement (1948-1951). His work typically represents the ideals of this group of artists whose pictures express rebellion against the constraints of traditional painting. In his Cobra period Appel painted fantasy creatures and figures, but after 1951 he painted more vehemently, so that line and form merged into a turbulent, expressive, impasto.