Karel Appel artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale Young woman in striped dress
Karel Appel
Amsterdam 1921-2006 Zürich (Zwitserland)
1921-2006
Young woman in striped dress
gouache on paper 24.8 x 19.9 cm, signed l.l. and dated 1943
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Provenance: waarschijnlijk Galerie Krikhaar, Amsterdam; mw. J.W. Hoogstraat, Amsterdam.
Literature: tent.cat. Ede, Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, 'Frieda Hunziker (1908-1966). Een vitale wereld in kleur en vorm', 2024, pag. 45 (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
