Lot 202 
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202
Karel Appel
Figure, 1991.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 22,600 Sold:
€ 38,100 / $ 43,052 (incl. surcharge)
Figure. 1991.
Oil on canvas.
Lower right signed. Inscribed "X91_041" on the reverse. 81 x 65 cm (31.8 x 25.5 in).
• Karel Appel is one of the most important contemporary artists in the Netherlands.
• Particularly expressive gestural-figurative painting.
• Karel Appel emphasizes the motif in the richly structured surface.
• Paintings by Karel Appel can be found at, among others, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The work is registered at the Karel Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, under the number KA.1991.27.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany (in 1991 acquired from Waddington Galleries, London).
EXHIBITION: FIAC 1991, Waddington Galleries, London (label on the reverse).
".. I have broken through, through the wall of Abstract, Surrealism etc. my work contains [..] everything You mustn't be pigeon-holed [..]. Your friend Karel."
Karel Appel in a letter to Corneille, quoted from: ex. cat. CoBrA. The color of freedom, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam 2003, p. 42.
Oil on canvas.
Lower right signed. Inscribed "X91_041" on the reverse. 81 x 65 cm (31.8 x 25.5 in).
• Karel Appel is one of the most important contemporary artists in the Netherlands.
• Particularly expressive gestural-figurative painting.
• Karel Appel emphasizes the motif in the richly structured surface.
• Paintings by Karel Appel can be found at, among others, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The work is registered at the Karel Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, under the number KA.1991.27.
PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany (in 1991 acquired from Waddington Galleries, London).
EXHIBITION: FIAC 1991, Waddington Galleries, London (label on the reverse).
".. I have broken through, through the wall of Abstract, Surrealism etc. my work contains [..] everything You mustn't be pigeon-holed [..]. Your friend Karel."
Karel Appel in a letter to Corneille, quoted from: ex. cat. CoBrA. The color of freedom, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam 2003, p. 42.
202
Karel Appel
Figure, 1991.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 22,600 Sold:
€ 38,100 / $ 43,052 (incl. surcharge)
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