Karel Appel

Exhibited by Galerie Boulakia

Material oil on burlap

Dimensions 110.2 × 100 cm

Price Available upon inquiry

Status Vetted

About the Work

Born in 1921 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Karel Appel was an influential Dutch painter whose figurative abstractions were realised through expressive colours and forms. Producing his first real painting on canvas at the age of fourteen, Appel found inspiration in the artwork of children for the rest of his career. The artist founded the European avant-garde CoBrA movement in 1948, along with key figures such as Corneille and Asger Jorn.

Based on the art of spontaneity, his working method draws inspiration from primitive and uneducated art forms. Both Appel’s rejection of sophisticated aesthetic style and his celebration of unconstrained artistic experimentation are apparent in Personnage avec chien, 1952, which sees an array of primary colours unite in vibrant abstraction.

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Provenance

J. Karel P. van Stuijvenberg, Pays-Bas.
Collection particulière, Europe.
Galerie Moderne B.V., Utrecht.
Acquis auprès de celle-ci par le propriétaire actuel en 2002.

Literature

W. Stokvis, P. Hovdenakk, F. de Vree et E. Wingen, De taal van cobra: Museumcollectie Van Stuijvenberg, Amstelveen, 1996, p. 273, no. 22 (illustré en couleurs, p. 140).