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Artist or Maker: Karel Appel (DUTCH, 1921-2006)

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Description: Karel Appel (DUTCH, 1921-2006) Een Vrolijke kermis - A happy fun fair signed and dated 'Appel 1960' (lower left), and signed again and inscribed with title (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 129.5 x 195.5 cm.

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Provenance: Galerie Rive Droite, Anjou, no. 120F.

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Notes: PROPERTY OF A LADY

" ! " : This lot is imported from outside the EU. For each lot the buyer's premium is calculated at 31.1% of the hammer price up to a value of €400,000 plus 21.58% of any amount in excess of €400,000.
At the end of the 1950's and the beginning of the 1960's Appel had come to a free style, much more theatrical and espressionistic than his Cobra works and the works he made later on in the 1960's.
'I paint from the matter, because the matter appears to have as much possibilities as the mind, if not even more. It is an unpredictable energy wich can be transformed by contradictions and mingling. It is possible to make the presentation representable but also unpresentable'. (Alfred Frankenstein, Karel Appel, Amsterdam 1980, p. 60)