Karel Appel artwork • painting • previously for sale Untitled
Karel Appel
Amsterdam 1921-2006 Zürich (Zwitserland)
1921-2006
Untitled
ink and acrylic on paper on canvas 75.2 x 59.4 cm, signed l.l. and dated '75
Provenance: rechtstreeks verworven van de kunstenaar in 1975 door de vorige eigenaar, een zeekapitein die Karel Appel ontmoette op een feestje in Rotterdam; Auktionshaus Bukowskis, Stockholm, Zweden, 16 mei 2023.
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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