Karel Appel artwork • painting • for sale Figure (on a postcard from the artist to Aldo van Eyck, 1951)
Karel Appel
Amsterdam 1921-2006 Zürich (Zwitserland)
1921-2006
Figure (on a postcard from the artist to Aldo van Eyck, 1951)
pencil, ink and wax charcoals on paper 10.2 x 14.7 cm, signed u.l. and dated 1-2 1951
Provenance: coll. Aldo en Hannie van Eyck Amsterdam.
Literature: 'Aldo en Hannie van Eyck met Karel Appel in Middelburg', Stichting Beeldende Kunst, Middelburg 1992, pag....... (met afb. ); Francis Strauven, 'Aldo van Eyck: relativiteit en verbeelding', Amsterdam 1994, afb. pag. 144 (in kleur).
Exhibited: Rotterdam, Nieuwe Instituut, 'Built Homecoming: The House of Aldo and Hannie van Eyck', 12 sept. 2024-15 jan. 2025.
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.
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