Screaming animal

Details

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

Provenance

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

Exhibited

London, The Arts Council of Great Britain, Trends in Contemporary Dutch Art, 20 September 1958-4 April 1959, cat. no. 2.
Humblebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Fremmed kunst i dansk eje, 29 February-5 April 1964.

Special Notice

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.

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Lot Essay

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)

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