Karel Appel artwork • painting • previously for sale Untitled
Karel Appel
Amsterdam 1921-2006 Zürich (Zwitserland)
1921-2006
Untitled
acrylic on paper on canvas 68.1 x 84.1 cm, signed l.l.
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: part. bezit Zweden.
Literature: tent.cat. Ede, Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, 'Frieda Hunziker (1908-1966). Een vitale wereld in kleur en vorm', 2024, pag. 81 (met afb. in kleur);Cathelijne Brouwer, Claire Hoogakker, Caroline Rootliep e.a., 'Kees Verwey - Streken van een meester', Haarlem 2025, afb. in kleur pag. 53.
Exhibited: Ede, Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, 'Frieda Hunziker (1908-1966). Een vitale wereld in kleur en vorm', 8 juni-31 aug. 2024; Haarlem, Verwey Museum, ‘Kees Verwey – Streken van een meester', 28 mei-9 november 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.
© Simonis & Buunk
