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Lithograph by Karel Appel called ‘Dans la Tempête’.
Published in year 1960.
Edition number *** of 125
Signed by the artist right under.
Numbered on the left’ ***/125
KAREL APPEL
Karel Appel, born April 25, 1921, was one of the most important painters of the post-war era in the Netherlands. Known for his colorful personality and for his fluid, spontaneous approach to his paintings. He believed in an entirely unskilled form of creative expression. And looked for inspiration to the art produced by children and artists who worked outside the canon (folk artists).
As a founding member of the CoBrA group, Karel Appel, together with his Dutch compatriots Corneille Guillaume Beverloo and Constant Nieuwenhuys, he developed a radically new approach to painting. In 1949 Cobra was given an exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The exhibition was received very negatively. Disappointed, Appel settled in Paris in 1950. Karel Appel’s international breakthrough started around 1953 when his work was shown at the São Paulo Biennale. In 1954 there were solo exhibitions by Appel in Paris and New York, and in 1968 there finally was a solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
Around 1990 Appel had four studios, in Monaco, New York, Connecticut and Mercatale Valdarno (Tuscany). He mainly used his studio in New York to experiment with his painting. And he worked out these experiments from New York in his other studios there. Works with the same theme then got, for example, their own character through a different light in Tuscany.
Karel Appel died on May 3, 2006 and was buried privately at the cemetery of Père-Lachaise in Paris.
