Karel Christiaan Appel, oil on canvas, !6 x 10. 16 x 10 Karel Appel was a painter born on April 25, 1921 in Amsterdam, Holland; his father was a barber. He studied at the Royal Academy in Amsterdam in 1940-43. Appel sought to develop an impulsive formal language based on life, in reaction to geometric academicism. He even founded with others an experimental group. In Paris in 1949, he focused on mastering creative power and did canvases that look like they were done in a rage". (Schatz) An action painter," Appel gives full rein to his violent expressionism in numerous mural compositions and in stained glass windows. In 1958, Appel established residence in Paris, and in 1959 he came to New York, where he now spends half the year. He won the UNESCO prize at the Venice Biennale in 1952, in 1956 the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam commissioned a large public mural from him which was accepted after considerable public controversy. He was the youngest artist awarded first prize at the Guggenheim international exhibition in 1960. Appel's career was as turbulent as his paintings.. Title: Abstract. Medium: Oil on Canvas. Size: 16 x 10 in. Signature: SLR. Artist: Karel Christiaan Appel (1921 - 2006). Framed.** The consignor of this painting has other lots in this auction, such as: lot 11 Gottfried Honneger, lot 9 Karel Christian Appel lithograph, lot 25 & 26 Eames chairs, lot 1 Eero Saarinen Knoll tulip table, , lot 15 Jen Duffet, lot 32 Sonia Sekula, lot 35, 36 38 to name a few… Note info in lot 11, Gottfried Honegger.

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