Karel Appel
Karel Appel
1921 - 2006
Karel Appel was an accomplished painter, sculptor and poet, and a founding member of the avant-garde movement CoBrA. He developed an international reputation for his expressive colours and forms that rejected modish aesthetics.

Born on April 25, 1921, Appel studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 1940 to 1943. His early work was inspired by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Jean Dubuffet. In 1946, Appel appeared in his first group show at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum with fellow artists Eugène Brands, Guillaume Corneille and Anton Rooskens. Together they formed the Dutch Experimental Group, which was the cradle of the CoBrA movement. Unified by a doctrine of complete freedom of colour and form, as well as a shared interest in modernism and Surrealism, CoBrA’s artists also embraced folk and children’s art, which characterized Appel’s style. His work distinguished itself through colourful, semiabstract compositions, and dense layering of pigments with powerful brushwork.

In 1953, Appel was given his first important solo exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. The following year he represented the Netherlands at the 27th Venice Biennale, and he won the UNESCO award. During the 1950s and 1960s, he was commissioned to paint numerous murals for public places. Appel worked simultaneously in painting and sculpture, and his figurative sculptures made of wood and metal share the crude, imaginative expressionism found in his paintings.

As a result of his extensive travels through Europe and the Americas, Appel developed international status. He participated in many solo and group exhibitions, and his work has been featured at the Tate, the MoMA and other key museums and galleries worldwide. Appel was the recipient of the Dutch royal award in 1968 and was decorated again in 1999; he also received the French Légion d’Honneur, in the grade of Officer, in 2003.
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Untitled by Karel Appel vendu pour $289,250
Karel Appel
Untitled
50 x 30 in 127 x 76.2 cm
oil on canvas
Estimation : $250,000 - $350,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $289,250 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Post-War & Contemporary Art le Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Comme les planètes by Karel Appel vendu pour $271,250
Karel Appel
Comme les planètes
51 x 76 3/4 in 129.5 x 194.9 cm
oil on canvas
Estimation : $250,000 - $350,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $271,250 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Post-War & Contemporary Art le Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Cyclops by Karel Appel vendu pour $74,750
Karel Appel
Cyclops
39 1/2 x 32 in 100.3 x 81.3 cm
oil on canvas
Estimation : $60,000 - $80,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $74,750 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
April 2007 1st Session le Saturday, April 28, 2007
Mother and Child by Karel Appel vendu pour $64,900
Karel Appel
Mother and Child
48 x 45 in 121.9 x 114.3 cm
oil on canvas
Estimation : $70,000 - $90,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $64,900 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
April 2015 - 1st Session le Thursday, April 30, 2015
Wingy People by Karel Appel vendu pour $64,350
Karel Appel
Wingy People
36 x 42 in 91.4 x 106.7 cm
oil on board
Estimation : $50,000 - $70,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $64,350 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
April 2013 - 1st Session le Thursday, April 25, 2013
Untitled by Karel Appel vendu pour $34,500
Karel Appel
Untitled
22 x 29 1/2 in 55.9 x 74.9 cm
1960
mixed media on Arches paper
Estimation : $30,000 - $40,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $34,500 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
April 2008 - 1st Session le Saturday, April 26, 2008
Happy Faces by Karel Appel vendu pour $34,500
Karel Appel
Happy Faces
22 x 30 in 55.9 x 76.2 cm
1975
acrylic on paper on canvas
Estimation : $40,000 - $50,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $34,500 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
April 2008 - 1st Session le Saturday, April 26, 2008
Le petit bonhomme 1 by Karel Appel vendu pour $25,000
Karel Appel
Le petit bonhomme 1
25 1/4 x 17 3/4 in 64.1 x 45.1 cm
oil on wood in relief
Estimation : $20,000 - $30,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $25,000 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
Post-War & Contemporary Art le Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Three Together by Karel Appel vendu pour $22,420
Karel Appel
Three Together
23 1/4 x 35 1/4 in 59.7 x 89.5 cm
mixed media and collage on paper
Estimation : $15,000 - $20,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $22,420 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
October 2014 - 1st Session le Thursday, October 30, 2014
Jockey by Karel Appel vendu pour $22,230
Karel Appel
Jockey
22 1/2 x 32 in 57.1 x 81.3 cm
gouache on paper
Estimation : $15,000 - $20,000 CDN
Vendu pour : $22,230 CDN (Prime d’achat incluse)
October 2013 - 2nd Session le Thursday, October 31, 2013