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Red Head,
Circa 1974
Karel Appel
Print : Screen Print
85 x 70 x 1 cm 33.5 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
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Numbered and limited to 100 copies
1 copy available
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Hand-signed by artist
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85 x 70 x 1 cm 33.5 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Artwork location: Switzerland
This expressive silkscreen from 1977 exemplifies the powerful visual language for which Karel Appel is internationally renowned. The composition features a bold, almost mask-like face constructed from sweeping black contours and vibrant fields of red, green, blue, yellow, and white. The energetic gestures and strong chromatic contrasts convey a sense of immediacy and raw emotion, hallmarks of Appel's artistic philosophy. The image oscillates between abstraction and figuration, inviting the viewer to perceive faces, eyes, and symbolic forms without fixing them into a single narrative.
The work is signed and dated in pencil at the lower right and numbered at the lower left, underscoring its authenticity and collectible character.
Printed on heavy 350 g handmade paper.
The edition was published by Galerie Nova Spectra, The Hague, a gallery closely associated with avant-garde and modern graphic art in the Netherlands.
Karel Appel (1921–2006) was one of the most influential Dutch artists of the 20th century and a founding member of the revolutionary CoBrA movement. Rejecting academic conventions, he championed instinct, experimentation, and childlike expression as fundamental artistic values. Throughout his career, Appel worked across painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking, developing a distinctive visual language defined by bold color, dynamic gesture, and emotional intensity. His work is represented in major museum collections worldwide, including the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and continues to play a central role in the history of post-war modern art.
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Karel Appel is a Dutch artist born in Amsterdam in 1921 (He died in 2006). From 1940 to 1943, he studied at the Beaux-Art academy in Amsterdam.
In 1948, with Corneille and Constant, Karel Appel creates the experimental group "Reflex", the Dutch division of the CoBra group, a movement gathering artists from Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam and born in reaction to the fight between abstraction and figuration. The artists of this movement gather around their common interest in primitive, naive, and popular art, and the idea that everyone can practice art.
Influenced by the artwork of Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee and Henri Matisse, Karel Appel is notably known for his numerous wood panels in relief and his wall paintings about childhood. At the limit of abstraction, his artworks are characterized by the use of bright and pure colors in a naive and charged aesthetic.
In 2009, the Lelong Gallery holds an exhibition for him under the name "Peintures 2000-2001" and in 2012; his artworks are presented during the exhibition "Cobra- Sous le regard d'un passionné" at the LAAC in Dunkerque.
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