Live Auction 3049Post-War and Contemporary Art
Karel Appel (1921-2006)
Lot 47 Property from a Private American Collection 

Karel Appel (1921-2006)

Animal fond rouge

Closed5 November 2014

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EUR 73,500

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Karel Appel (1921-2006)
Animal fond rouge
signed 'appel' (lower right); signed and dated 'appel 1961' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
81 x 100 cm.
Painted in 1961

Arthur Tooth & Sons LTD, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1969.

Specialist note

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

'I don't paint, I hit' (Karel Appel, 1958, as cited in the movie: 'De werkelijkheid van Karel Appel', quoted by J. Vrijman in De Tweede Helft, A. de Visser, Nijmegen 1998)