Karel Appel - Mother and Child - Sold

Work by Karel Appel.
Hand signed in pencil lower right.
Karel Appel
The Dutch painter, sculptor and poet Karel Appel was born in Amsterdam on April 25, 1921. He was the son of a hairdresser and, after an argument with his father, enrolled at the National Academy of Visual Arts. During the Second World War, Appel met Corneille during his training.
Paris
After the war, Karel Appel traveled with Corneille to Liège and later to Paris. In 1947 Appel also met Constant. Appel, Corneille and Constant exhibited at the Santee Landweer art dealership in Amsterdam in 1948. In July 1948, Karel Appel was one of the founders of the Dutch Experimental Group and in November 1948 he was involved in the founding of Cobra.
Cobra
Karel Appel initially became the figurehead of the Cobra movement in the Netherlands and later also in the rest of the world. The term "I just mess around" was used in a negative sense by opponents of Appel's expressive style, but it does indicate how Karel Appel worked: he took hold of a subject and arrived at a result while working. In the 1940s and 1950s, Karel Appel's work caused intense discussions. His mural 'Questioning Children', painted in the canteen of the Amsterdam town hall in 1949, soon disappeared behind wallpaper, because indignant officials were interrupted during lunch. Work can be delivered to your home in consultation for shipping costs