Gouache. Signed and dated in the upper right. Signed and illegibly inscribed on the reverse. On wove paper. 47.8 x 64.4 cm. , the full sheet. [AW].
- Karel Appel is one of the most important Dutch contemporary artists. - Particularly expressive gestural-figurative image. - From 1948 to 1951, he was a co-founder and part of the CoBrA artist group. - 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.
LITERATURE: Michel Ragon, Karel Appel. The early years 1937-1957, Paris 1988, cat. no. 443 (illu. in color).