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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Karel Appel

    Innocent Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  2. Karel Appel

    Blue Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  3. Karel Appel

    Stalking Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  4. Karel Appel

    Pink Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  5. Karel Appel

    Walking Cat, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

  6. 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)

  7. Sunny Parrot in Landscape by Karel Appel, Image 1.

    Karel Appel

    Sunny Parrot in Landscape, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

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

    Karel Appel

    Sunny Beach Life, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

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About the artist

Karel Appel

Dutch

1921-2006

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.