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Karel Appel is famous for his influence on the world of fine art. He was a founding member of CoBrA, an art movement originating in Germany that strived to replicate and invoke a child’s approach to art. Within this movement, he created abstracted and simplified figures, often monsters and fractured depictions of people. Shop an assortment of Karel Appel art on 1stDibs.
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Karel Appel Sitting in a Landscape Pencil Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
By Karel Appel
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Karel Appel Sitting in a Landscape Animals and monsters series Year 1979 Print - Lithograph 22.0'' x 30'' inches Edition: signed in pencil and marked 160/160 Karel Appel is one of t...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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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, hand signed in pencil by Karel Appel Edition size - 175, plus proofs 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 Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Karel Appel (1921–2006) - Dancing man - Color lithograph on paper - 1970
By Karel Appel
Located in Varese, IT
Color lithograph on paper, edited in 1970. Limited edition, numbered HC (hors commerce) Signed in pencil by artist in lower right corner. Very good conditions. Paper size: 80 x 59 cm...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Moving the Wind, Karel Appel
By Karel Appel
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Karel Appel (1921-2006) Title: Moving the Wind Year: 1974 Medium: Silkscreen on Somerset paper Edition: 88/110, plus proofs Size: 27 x 39.25 inches Condition: Good Inscriptio...
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1970s Pop Art Abstract Prints

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Screen

Floating Red, 1979 Large Signed Limited Edition Silkscreen Print
By Karel Appel
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Karel Appel Floating Red Passion - 1979 Print - Lithograph on Somerset paper   31'' x 38'' in Edition: Signed in pencil and marked 9/15 H.C. Karel Appel is one of the founding memb...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Screen

original lithograph
By Karel Appel
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1964 and published by Eberhard Kornfeld for the 1 Cent Life portfolio in an edition of 2000. Size: 16 1/4 x 11 3/8 inches (408 x 290 mm). Ther...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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