Karel Appel artwork • painting • previously for sale Untitled
Karel Appel
Amsterdam 1921-2006 Zürich (Zwitserland)
1921-2006
Untitled
oil on canvas 38.1 x 46.3 cm, signed l.r. and Niet beschikbaar
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: Galerie Herman Krikhaar, Amsterdam; veiling Sotheby's, New York, 9 mei 1990, lotnr. 243; veiling Christie's 10 juni 1999; Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, Ede, 1999; part. coll.
Exhibited: Najaarstentoonstelling Simonis & Buunk, 1999.
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.
© Simonis & Buunk
