Red Cat Heads Like Clouds Abstract Artist Proof By Karel Appel 1971 In Frame

Red Cat; Heads Like Clouds abstract artist proof by Karel Appel 1971. Appel’s style is
characterized by thick layering of pigment, violent brushwork, and a
crude, reductive figuration. Please note there is some light discoloration by the
signature. This piece measures approximately 41” w x 32” tall in the frame as pictured.
In 1948 Appel joined COBRA (coined by the Belgian poet Christian Dotremont from the initials of the
members' home countries capital cities: Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam) together with the
Dutch artists Corneille, Constant, and Jan Nieuwenhuys. The new art of the COBRA group was not
popular in the Netherlands, but it found a warm and broad welcome in Denmark. By 1939, Danish
artists had already started to make spontaneous art and one of their sources of inspiration was
Danish and Nordic mythology. It was also in Denmark that the COBRA artists started cooperating by
collectively painting the insides of houses, which encouraged and intensified the exchange of the
typical childish and spontaneous picture language used by the COBRA group. [2]  Appel used this
very intensively, his 1949 fresco Questioning Children in Amsterdam City Hall caused controversy
and was covered up for ten years.
As a result of this controversy and other negative Dutch reactions to COBRA, Appel moved to Paris
in 1950 and developed his international reputation by travelling to Mexico, the United
States, Yugoslavia, and Brazil. He also lived in New York City and Florence. His first American
gallery exhibition took place in 1954 at the Martha Jackson Gallery. [3]  In America he also painted
portraits of prominent jazz musicians, including Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie. [4]  The following year his painting Child and Beast II (1951) was included in the influential exhibition, The New Decade at the Museum of Modern Art which featured the work of twenty-two European painters and sculptors
including newcomers like Francis Bacon, Jean Dubuffet, and Pierre Soulages. [3][5]  He is particularly noted [by whom?]  for his mural work. After 1990 he became much more popular in the Netherlands; he had several big shows in Amsterdam and Bruxelles, organized by director Rudy Fuchs. Also, the COBRA-museum in Amstelveen organized several shows featuring his work. He became the most famous Dutch COBRA artist. Frog with umbrella (2001) at the Spui in The Hague
Appel's work has been exhibited in a number of galleries, including the Anita Shapolsky Gallery in
New York City, Galerie Lelong in Paris, Galerie Ulysses in Vienna, and Gallery LL in Amsterdam. His
estate is represented by Galerie Max Hetzler and Almine Rech. [6][7]

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41" x 32"

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