Karel Appel artwork • painting • for sale Le Roi Mage
Karel Appel
Amsterdam 1921-2006 Zürich (Zwitserland)
1921-2006
Le Roi Mage
oil on canvas 53.3 x 32.0 cm, signed u.l. CK Appel '51 and 1951 (?) to be dated 1951-54
This painting is for sale.
price range: € 100.000 or above
Provenance: Galerie 1900-2000, Parijs; André Simoens Gallery, Knokke; part. bezit; veiling Christie's, Londen, 9 febr. 2006, lotnr. 179, alwaar verworven door de vorige eigenaar.
Literature: Knokke, André Simoens Gallery, 'CoBrA', 1987, cat.nr. 586.
Exhibited: Knokke, André Simoens Gallery, 'CoBrA', 1987.
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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