Karel Appel (1921-2006) - Galérie Ariel 1974 ** ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT **

Original lithographic poster by Karel Appel (*)
Edited on the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition at Galérie Ariel, in 1974.
Printed by Arte Paris
Made on cotton Vellum paper.


Specifications

Support dimensions: 76 x 55 cm
Year 1974
- Edition: 1000ex.
Condition: Excellent (this artwork has never been framed or exhibited, and has always been kept in a professional art folder, thus it is offered in perfect condition).

The item will be carefully handled and packaged in a reinforced flat cardboard box. The shipment will be certified with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include full insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

‘If I paint like a barbarian, it is because we live in an era of barbarians,’ said the Dutch artist Karel Appel about his own work immersed in the informalism currents that proliferated after the end of World War II.
During his student years at the Rijksakademie between 1940 and 1943, Appel was attracted to the material force of the German expressionists and Van Gogh. He created works that were aggressive and provocative in nature, yet at the same time simple and linked to the childish, which seemed connected to the transgressive spirit of the Surrealists. He met Constant and Corneille, with whom he founded the Experimentele Groep in July 1948. That same year, in Paris, he signed the manifesto La Cause est entendue, along with Asger Jorn, Joseph Noiret, and Christian Dotremont, advocating for spontaneous, rule-free art, akin to the way children or the mad create, which gave rise to the CoBrA movement. A few months later, on the occasion of the group's first exhibition in Amsterdam, Appel created a mural in the city hall cafeteria titled Children Asking Questions, which caused such a scandal in the city that it was covered for the next ten years.
In 1950, Appel moved to Paris where, thanks to Michel Tapié's support, he was able to work with better materials. The areas of turbulent, mass-loaded painting gained prominence over the figurative motifs of animals and people that had previously dominated his work. In 1957, he traveled to New York for the first time, and since then, he alternated his stays in France, in a castle he bought in 1964 in Molesmes, with long periods in the United States. Simultaneously, his work began to receive widespread international recognition and was periodically exhibited at Martha Jackson's gallery in New York or at the Studio Facchetti in Paris.
Appel was a tireless artist who explored multiple languages, from sculpture, ceramics, mural painting, stained glass, to engraving. Throughout his long artistic career, he received numerous recognitions and collaborated with artists from other disciplines such as poet Allen Ginsberg and choreographer Min Tanaka.