Property from a Bluffton, SC Private Collection

Description:

Karel Appel (NY/France, 1921-2006), Flying High in the Night Sky, 1977, color pochoir and carborundum on heavy white wove paper, 1977, signed, dated and numbered 91/110 in white crayon, lower margin, matted and framed. Frame size: 32 in. s 37 3/4 in.

Karel Appel was an influential Dutch painter whose figurative abstractions employed expressive colors and forms. Born in 1921 in Amsterdam, Appel went on to study at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten and had his first solo exhibition in 1946. Inspired by the work of Paul Klee and Joan Miró, Appel began experimenting with a rudimentary approach of describing subject matter reminiscent of folk art. In 1948, he helped form the CoBrA group along with Asger Jorn, Constant, Corneille and others who were united in their rejection of rationalism and geometric abstraction. Following the dissolution of CoBrA in 1952, Appel joined Art Informel, another collection of abstract artists. Through the following decades the artist continued his engagement with painterly expression and was the subject of several solo exhibitions. Appel’s works are presently held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Rijksmuseum. (Artnet)

Measurements: Height: by sight 27 3/4 in. x Width: 33 3/4 in

Condition:

Good condition, not viewed out of the frame.

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