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Property from a Prestigious European Collection

Karel Appel

Les animaux du désert

VAT reduced rateArtist's Resale RightUK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Auction Closed

June 26, 03:48 PM GMT

Estimate

140,000 - 180,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Karel Appel

1921 - 2006


Les animaux du désert

signed and dated '54 (lower right)

oil on canvas

109.9 by 142.1 cm. 43¼ by 56 in.

framed: 114.9 by 147.4 cm. 45¼ by 58 in.

Executed in 1954.

Gimpel Fils Gallery, London

Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1992, lot 15 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Paintings: Karel Appel, April - May 1957, no. 12, n.p.

London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Karel Appel, October 1959, no. 4

London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Collectors Choice No XIV, June 1964, no. 4, n.p., illustrated

London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Karel Appel: Paintings of the 50's and 60's, October - November 1981, no. 2, p. 42