Karel Appel (1921-2006)
Grande Tête Rouge (Big Red Head)
acrylic on wooden relief
signed and dated 'appel 1967' (on the reverse)
247.5 x 180 x 13cm.
Executed in 1967
Karel Appel (1921-2006)
Grande Tête Rouge (Big Red Head)
acrylic on wooden relief
signed and dated 'appel 1967' (on the reverse)
247.5 x 180 x 13cm.
Executed in 1967
A Collection of 10 Magnificent Sculptures by Karel Appel, Sotheby's Amsterdam, 22 March 1987, lot 6. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Karel Appel over Karel Appel, Amsterdam 1971 (installation view illustrated on back cover and installation view illustrated, unpaged). E. Wingen, Het Gezicht van Appel, Venlo 1977 (installation view illustrated, unpaged). Karel Appel, Streetart, Ceramics, Sculpture, Wood Reliefs, Tapestries, Murals, Villa el Salvador, New York 1985 (installation view illustrated, unpaged). E. Flomenhaft, The Roots and Development of CoBrA, Fine Arts Museum Long Island Hempstead 1985, no. 94 (illustrated, p.74). H. de Visser and R. Hagenberg (ed.), Karel Appel. The Complete Sculptures 1936-1990, New York 1990, no. 67-010 (detail illustrated, pp. 218-219; illustrated, p. 356). D. Kuspit, Karel Appel Sculpture. A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 1994 (illustrated, p. 159).
Paris, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Karel Appel. Reliefs 1966-1968, 1968-1969 (illustrated twice, unpaged). This exhibition later travelled to Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Basel, Kunsthalle Basel and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts.
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Specialist note
This work is registered in the Archive of the Karel Appel Foundation.
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