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Karel Appel

Dutch, 1921-2006
Karel Appel was a founding member of COBRA, an art movement originating in Germany that strived to replicate and invoke the child’s approach to art. Within this movement he created abstracted and simplified figures, often monsters and fractured depictions of people.
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Mask Face Personage, Signed Lithograph, Abstract Collage Portrait, CoBrA Artist
By Karel Appel
Located in Union City, NJ
Mask Face Personage is an original limited edition lithograph by the Dutch artist Karel Appel, printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. Mas...
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1980s Abstract Karel Appel

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Lithograph

RESTING CAT 1978 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
By Karel Appel
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Karel Appel Resting Cat Print - Lithograph   23.0'' x 31.5'' Edition: signed and numbered in pencil 80/125 Unframed in Excellent Condition. I portray my vision of those things on that single moment witch surpasses time and place: only those details, the "brush strokes", Which connote the emotional strength of the scene are reproduced, and as directly as possible, without any vagueness. It evokes which cannot be expressed with words.- Karl Appel...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Karel Appel

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Lithograph

NIGHT ANIMAL Signed Lithograph, Abstract Cat, Color Stripes Pink Yellow Red Blue
By Karel Appel
Located in Union City, NJ
NIGHT ANIMAL is an original limited edition lithograph by the Dutch artist Karel Appel on printed using traditional hand lithography techniques on archival printmaking paper, 100% ac...
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1970s Abstract Karel Appel

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Lithograph

MULTI PERSONAGE Signed Lithograph, Abstract Collage Portrait, CoBrA Artist
By Karel Appel
Located in Union City, NJ
MULTI PERSONAGE is an original limited edition lithograph by the Dutch artist Karel Appel, printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. MULTI PERSONAGE is a lively abstract color collage portrait expressed in vibrant shades of red, blue, pink, green, purple, yellow with hints of multi color pastel tones and white creating an abstracted body and face. Bold black paint strokes define the face with its zany black eyes, head, body and limbs; collage effect torn paper bits fill in the body form. MULTI PERSONAGE is a very unique, fantastically playful and wild composition by Karel Appel, one of the founders of the avant-garde art movement CoBrA active during the late 1940's thru early 1950's. His paintings are known for incorporating applications of vibrant, violent colors often possessing a primal, childlike quality. Print size - 30 x 20 inches, unframed, excellent condition, pencil signed by Karel Appel Edition size - 175 Year published - 1980 Printer - JK Fine Art Editions Co., NY Karel Appel was one of the founders of the avant-garde art movement CoBrA, active during the late 1940's thru early 1950's. His paintings are known for incorporating applications of vibrant, violent colors often possessing a primal, childlike quality. Karel Appel, (born April 25, 1921, Amsterdam, Netherlands—died May 3, 2006, Zürich, Switzerland), Dutch painter of turbulent, colorful, and semi-abstract compositions, who was a co-founder (1948) of the CoBRA group of northern European Expressionists. He was also a noted sculptor and graphic artist. Appel attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Amsterdam (1940–43), and helped found the “Reflex” group, which became known as CoBRA (for Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam), in 1948. He moved to Paris in 1950 and by the 1960s had settled in New York City; he later lived in Italy and Switzerland. Partly in reaction against what they perceived as the sterile academicism of the de Stijl movement, the CoBRA artists...
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1980s Expressionist Karel Appel

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Lithograph

Clown Cat From Animals and Monsters Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
By Karel Appel
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Karel Appel Clown Cat Animals and monsters series Print - Lithograph 22.0'' x 30'' inches Edition: signed in pencil and marked 1/175
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Karel Appel

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Lithograph

Gente Riendo
By Karel Appel
Located in New York, NY
Gente Riendo, 1977 Hand-Signed Color lithograph on Arches paper image size 24 1/2 x 19 1/4 in. Edition of 80
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1970s Abstract Karel Appel

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Lithograph

Gente Riendo
H 24.5 in W 19.25 in D 0.1 in
WITH MY PUSSYCAT Signed Lithograph, Abstract Animal, Blue Cat, CoBrA Artist
By Karel Appel
Located in Union City, NJ
WITH MY PUSSYCAT is an original limited edition lithograph by the Dutch artist Karel Appel printed using hand lithography techniques on archival, 100% acid free printmaking paper. WITH MY PUSSYCAT is a lively, imaginative, multi-color abstract animal composition portraying a cat figure with black eyes, and body colors of red, light yellow, turquoise blue, purple, pink and royal blue against a deep black background. The cat's companion positioned on the right, also outlined in turquoise blue takes on a more human form exhibiting abstracted facial features comprised of painted dabs of yellow and blue for eyes, a long blue nose...
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1970s Abstract Karel Appel

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Lithograph

UNTITLED (FROM TANTRIKA 1)
By Karel Appel
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From Tantrika 1 portfolio. Color lithograph on Arches paper. Frame size approx 39 x 31 inches From the roman numeral edition of X (10). Cer...
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1980s Contemporary Karel Appel

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Paper, Lithograph

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