Untitled Abstract 1999 44x100 - Huge Mural Size - Carved Wood

Year1999

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Condition Excellent 

Purchased fromOther 1999 

Provenance / HistoryArtwork by Appel for tthe opera 'Noach' produced by The Nationale Opera in Amsterdam. 

Story / Additional InfoThe Nationale Opera in Amsterdam presented in 1999 the opera "Noach". Pierre Audi, artistic director, invited Karel Appel to design costumes and decor for this piece. Fernando Ferreira was appointed to assist Karel Appel and was responsible for the props that were used for this production. Fernando made it to chief of the props department some years later. Noah turned out to be a great success, of course not in the least because of the curious creatures and colorful decor. Also important was the complicity between Appel, Audi and my father. As a token of appreciation towards my Fernando, Appel offered a piece of the decoration that he designed, namely the airplane. 

Certificate of AuthenticityEstate Letter 

Additional InformationBlue Chip Carved Wood Panel 

LID167992

Karel Appel - Netherlands

Art Brokerage: Karel Appel Dutch Artist: b 1921-2006. 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." Born on April 25, 1921 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he went on to study at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten and had his first solo exhibition in 1946. Inspired by the work of Paul Klee and Joan Miró, Appel began experimenting with a rudimentary approach of describing subject matter reminiscent of folk art. In 1948, he helped form the CoBrA group (an acronym for the cities the artists were from: Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam), along with Asger Jorn, Constant, Corneille and others who were united in their rejection of rationalism and geometric abstraction. Following the dissolution of CoBrA in 1952, Appel joined Art Informel, another collection of abstract artists which included Michel Tapié and Henri Michaux. Through the following decades the artist continued his engagement with painterly expression and was the subject of several solo exhibitions. He died on May 3, 2006 in Zürich, Switzerland. Appel's works are presently held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Listings wanted.