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KAREL APPEL | COMPOSITION NO. 6
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March 10, 05:18 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
KAREL APPEL
1921 - 2006
COMPOSITION NO. 6
signed
oil on canvas
Canvas: 18¼ by 15 in. (46.4 by 38.1 cm.)
Framed: 24¼ by 21⅛ in. (61.6 by 53.6 cm.)
Executed in 1962.
This work is registered in the archive of the Karel Appel Foundation and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity with the reference number 1618X62.
Galerie Gimpel & Hanover, Zurich
Moeller Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
“To observe Karel Appel in the act of painting is to witness one of the great boxing matches of modern times. He is merciless. He beats, cuffs, and assaults the canvas wildly from all directions at once, and one feels he is scarcely aware of the image being built up on the surface of that canvas as a result of his attack. This is true at least of the freest and most expressionistic of the several painterly styles he practices” (Alfred Frankenstein, Karel Appel, New York 1980, p. 10)