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Lithograph by Karel Appel called ‘L’Eloge de la Folie’. This was an album with 5 lithographs (see image below: 2nd from the left) and this is 1 of them.
Published in year 1977.
Edition number 99 of 110. Editor is Yves Rivière.
Signed by the artist right under.
Numbered on the left’ 99/110
Image area 66,0 x 50,0 cm.
External dimensions 76,5 x 56,5 cm
Condition:
Lithograph L’Eloge de la Folie is in good condition.
The only comment is that the original sheet had a size of 79 x 61.5 cm. This has been reduced by the previous owner to 76.5 x 56.5 cm. However, space at the bottom is larger than at the top, so this is perfect because of the signature at the bottom. So if a new passe-partout is placed over it, it will fit well if full space is used.
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.