Lot 29
  • 29

Karel Appel

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Figures in Blue Background
  • signed; signed on the reverse
  • acrylic and oilstick on canvas
  • 83 by 109.8 cm. 32 5/8 by 43 1/4 in.
  • Executed in 1987.

Provenance

Galerie Delorme, Paris
Galeria de Arte Gavar, Madrid
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1990

Exhibited

Madrid, Galeria de Arte Gavar, Karel Appel, November - December, 1988, n.p., illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is brighter and more vibrant and fails to convey the texture of the heavily impastoed areas visible in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Extremely close inspection reveals some hairline tensions cracks running intermittently along the edges with an associated minute and unobtrusive speck of loss to the extreme upper edge approximately 20 cm. from the upper left corner. Further close inspection reveals networks of drying cracks to some of the impastoed areas throughout the composition with an associated small and unobtrusive speck of loss to the blue and red paint towards the centre left of the composition. The canvas is slightly slack. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultraviolet light.
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