Karel Appel artwork • painting • previously for sale Untitled
Karel Appel
Amsterdam 1921-2006 Zürich (Zwitserland)
1921-2006
Untitled
acrylic on paper on canvas 75.0 x 105.0 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1975
This painting was previously for sale.
Provenance: Court Gallery, Kopenhagen, aldaar verworven door de vorige eigenaar.
Literature: tent.cat. Ede, Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, 'Frieda Hunziker (1908-1966). Een vitale wereld in kleur en vorm', 2024, pag. 73 (met afb. in kleur).
Exhibited: Ede, Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, 'Frieda Hunziker (1908-1966). Een vitale wereld in kleur en vorm', 8 juni-31 aug. 2024.
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
