Wonder

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Karel Appel (1921-2006)
Wonder
signed and dated 'ck. appel '51' (lower right)
gouache on paper
65 x 50 cm.
Executed in 1951

Provenance

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
Collection Mrs. Jean Knox, Buffalo, NY.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

'I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.'
(Karel Appel quoted in: 'Quotes', K. Appel (1989), in Karel Appel - the complete sculptures, eds. H. de Visser/R. Hagenberg, New York 1990, p. 85)

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