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Karel Appel

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1921-2006

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  1. Karel Appel

    Smiling Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  2. Moving in the Wind by Karel Appel, Image 1.

    Karel Appel

    Moving in the Wind, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

  3. Smiling in the Sun by Karel Appel, Image 1.

    Karel Appel

    Smiling in the Sun, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

  4. Karel Appel

    Devil Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  5. Karel Appel

    Stalking Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  6. Karel Appel

    Pink Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  7. Lying in Colors by Karel Appel, Image 1.

    Karel Appel

    Lying in Colors, c. 1975

    Lithograph on paper

    21.5 x 29.5 in (54.61 x 74.93 cm)

  8. Karel Appel

    Sunshine Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  9. Karel Appel

    Walking Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  10. Karel Appel

    About a Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  11. Karel Appel

    Green Cat, 1976

    Lithograph on paper

  12. Sunshine Face by Karel Appel, Image 1.

    Karel Appel

    Sunshine Face, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

  13. Resting Cat by Karel Appel, Image 1.

    Karel Appel

    Resting Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  14. Karel Appel

    Innocent Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  15. Karel Appel

    Frightened Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  16. Karel Appel

    Fighting Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  17. Sunny Beach Life by Karel Appel, Image 1.

    Karel Appel

    Sunny Beach Life, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

  18. Les Amoureux by Karel Appel, Image 1.

    Karel Appel

    Les Amoureux, 1959

    Lithograph on paper

    19.75 x 25.5 in (50.17 x 64.77 cm)

  19. Karel Appel

    Blue Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  20. Colorful People by Karel Appel, Image 1.

    Karel Appel

    Colorful People, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

  21. Nothing To Do by Karel Appel, Image 1.

    Karel Appel

    Nothing To Do, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

  22. Sun Flower Girls by Karel Appel, Image 1.

    Karel Appel

    Sun Flower Girls, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

  23. Karel Appel

    Luminous Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  24. Karel Appel

    Sad Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  25. Flower Hand by Karel Appel, Image 1.

    Karel Appel

    Flower Hand, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

Karel Appel was an influential Dutch painter whose figurative abstractions employed expressive colors and forms. Like Jean Dubuffet, Appel found inspiration in the artwork of children and the rejection of sophisticated aesthetic tastes. “Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound, like the roar coming from the lion's breast,” he reflected. “To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life.” A member of the international avant-garde group CoBrA, founded in Paris in 1948, Karel Appel is broadly known for the whimsical style of his expressionist paintings. Considered the European counterparts of the American Abstract Expressionists, Appel and other members of CoBrA privileged spontaneity in an intuitive, almost child-like approach to painting.