Lot 279
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Karel Appel

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Dreaming Girl
  • signed; signed and titled on the stretcher
  • oil on canvas
  • 28 by 22 in. 71 by 55.8 cm.
  • Executed in 1967.

Provenance

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Galerie Agnés Lefort, Montreal
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Sid Deutsch Art Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in June 1976

Condition

This work is in very good condition. There are very few unobtrusive drying cracks to the heavier areas of impasto, particularly in the white pigment at the right. These cracks appear to be stable. There is no evidence of restoration visible under UV light. Framed in a gilt wood frame.
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