Artworks by Karel Appel at Composition Gallery on artnet

Karel Appel

(Dutch, 1921–2006)

Karel Appel

Obra gráfica, 1974

1,500 EUR

Karel Appel

Flying head over ocean, 1972

950 USD

Karel Appel

Green floating passion, 1975

2,500 USD

Karel Appel

Red cat singing hands, 1978

2,500 USD

Karel Appel

Kool luke singing hands, 1978

2,500 USD

Karel Appel

Floating flower passion, 1978

2,500 USD

Karel Appel

Amsterdam clown, 1978

2,500 USD

Karel Appel

Sun of the incas, 1978

2,500 USD

Karel Appel

Como el Viento, 1988

1,570 EUR

Karel Appel

Salto sobre la cabeza, 1988

1,570 EUR

Karel Appel

El Amigo del hombre KA 2, 1988

3,900 EUR

Karel Appel

Putting green kiss, 1978

2,390 USD

Timeline

1921: Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1940 - 1943: Studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1948: Founds the Cobra Group
1950: Moved to Paris, France
1954: Received the UNESCO Prize at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1958: Became an internationally recognized artist
2006: Died in Zürich, Switzerland

Exhibitions

2013: Modern Print Masters Stock - The Watermill, Aberfeldy, Perthshire (Scotland)
Chronicles Of Dopobomba - Museo d`Arte Contemporanea Lissone, Lissone
Artistic Relationships: Partners, Mentors, Lovers - Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
Appassionata. Die Sammlung Selinka Im Dialog - Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg
Karel Appel - Robinsons Art Gallery, Knokke-Zoute
2012: Karel Appel – I don’t paint, I hit! - Museum Jorn (former Silkeborg Art Museum), Silkeborg
Karel Appel - Gallery LL, Amsterdam
The Art of Summer: Contemporary & Modern Works - Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
The Biennial of Painting: The Image of Man - MDD - Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
Cobra - 1000 Days of Free Art - SSM - Sakip Sabanci Müzesi, Istanbul
2011: Karel Appel: The Expression of Color - Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Europe at Mid-Century: Dubuffet, Giacometti, Picasso - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Painterly Abstraction, 1949-1969: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections - Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao
Focus: Abstraktion - Werke Aus Der Sammlung Essl - ESSL MUSEUM - KUNST DER GEGENWART, Klosterneuburg
2010: Painting on the Sea, The Sea as Pretext, Works from the IVAM Collection, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Goya and the Modern World, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Le grand geste! International Painting from Pollock to Schumacher - Art Informel and Abstract Expressionism, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009: Karel Appel. Peintures 2000-2001, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France (solo)
Karel Appel. The Sixties, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2008: Karel Appel: Opere 1990-2002, Galleria Arte 92, Milan, Italy (solo)
Karel Appel. Jazz 1958-1962, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands (solo)
Modern Prints - Klassische Moderne bis Pop Art, Galerie Proarta, Zurich, Switzerland
2007: Karel Appel. Monumentale Aktzeichnungen, Albertina, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Karel Appel. Works on Paper 1949 – 2005, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2006: Karel Appel. Last Paintings, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Pierre Alechinsky & Karel Appel. Peinture à quatre mains, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
2005: Karel Appel: Opere 1991 – 2002, Galleria Arte 92, Milan, Italy (solo)
Karel Appel Retrospective, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia (solo)
Karel Appel. Paintings and Sculptures, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Karel Appel. Recent works, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands (solo)
Karel Appel. Onderweg. Reis van Rudi Fuchs langs de kunst der Lage Landen, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2004: Karel Appel. New Works on Paper, JG Contemporary, New York, NY (solo)
Karel Appel. The Cobra Years, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2003: Karel Appel: oeuvres sur papier 1999-2002, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France (solo)
2002: Japanese Landscapes, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Mutation in Motion, , Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria (solo)br>Karel Appel, Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2001: Karel Appel, Pastorale Chiaroscuro, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
2000: Recente sculpturen & gedichten, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium (solo)
The Will to Power of the Planets Zomeropstelling 2000, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
1999: Toys from the Attic, Bergen Museum of Art, Norway (solo)
1998: Psychopathological Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
1996: Karel Appel. Gemälde, Gouachen, Zeichnungen 1950-1965, BAWAG Fondation, Vienna, Austria (solo)
1994: A Retrospective by Karel Appel, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (solo)
1993: Singing Donkeys, New Sculptures by Karel Appel, Paleis Lange Voorhout, The Hague, The Netherlands (solo)
1990: Karel Appel, Ik wou dat Ik een Vogel was (Karel Appel, If I Were a Bird), Haags Gemeente Museum, The Hague, The Netherlands (solo)
1989: Karel Appel, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (solo)
1987: Karel Appel. Dipinti, Sculpture e Collages, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (solo)
1986: Recent Paintings and Sculptures: Clouds, Windmills, Nudes and Other Mythologies, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL (solo)
1984: Karel Appel, Oeuvres Recentes, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
1982: The New Work of Karel Appel, Paintings 1979-1981, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (solo)
1978: Karel Appel Retrospective, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela (solo)
1977: Karel Appel, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
1974: Karel Appel Retrospective, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL (solo)
1972: Appel's Appels, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec (solo)
1968: Karel Appel, Reliefs 1966-68, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France (solo)
1966: Karel Appel. Paintings 1947-65, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
1965: Appel, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
1962: Karel Appel: Sculptures, 1962, Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, France (solo)
1961: Karel Appel, West Coast Exhibiton, San Francisco Art Museum, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1960: Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1957: Paintings Karel Appel, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (solo)
1953: Karel Appel, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (solo)

Public Collections

: Tate Modern, London, UK
: Museum Moderner Kunst, Wien, Austria
: National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
: Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
: Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
: Musée National d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporian, Nice, France
: Les Abattoires - Centre d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Toulouse, France
: Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
: The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
: Museo de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paolo, São Paolo, Brazil
: Mamac - Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Liege, Belgium
: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
: Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
: National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israël
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
: an Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
: Scottish National Galerie of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
: Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
: S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium

Literature

2001: Karel Appel, Pastorale Chiaroscuro - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Rotterdam, 2001
1994: Donald Kuspit, Karel Appel Sculpture : A Catalogue raisonné - Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1994
1988: Michel Ragon, Karel Appel : Peinture 1937 – 1957 - Galilée, Paris, 1988

Price Database

Composition Gallery

Karel Appel

(Dutch, 1921–2006)

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

Karel Appel

(Dutch, 1921–2006)

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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