Live Auction 3035Post-War and Contemporary Art
Karel Appel (1921-2006)
Lot 59

Karel Appel (1921-2006)

Screaming animal

Closed6 November 2013

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EUR 109,500

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Karel Appel (1921-2006)
Screaming animal
signed and dated 'CK. Appel '54' (lower left)
oil on burlap
110 x 140 cm.
Painted in 1954

Private collection, Denmark.
Anon. sale, Christie's Amsterdam, 9 June 2004, lot 328.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

This work is registered in the Archive of the Karel Appel Foundation.

'Painting is the destruction of what preceded, the destruction of systems, ideas, logic and routine. It is the dynamic and explosive power of intuition; in the mind there is space for more than one -ism.' (Karel Appel, quoted in R. Fuchs (ed.), Karel Appel. Ik wou dat ik een vogel was, Amsterdam 1990, p. 86)