Details
KAREL APPEL (1921-2006)
De boerderij (La ferme)
signed and dated 'Appel '50' (centre left); signed, inscribed and dated 'Ck. Appel 1950 Paris' (on the reverse)
paper collage, gouache and wax crayons on paper laid on canvas
96.5 x 129.5cm.
Executed in 1950
Provenance
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne.
Galerie Schwarzer, Dusseldorf.
Private Collection, Austria (acquired from the above).
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 8 February 2001, lot 14.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
S.Vinkenoog, Het verhaal van Karel Appel: een proeve van waarneming, Utrecht 1963, no. 17 (illustrated, p. 81).
M. Ragon, Karel Appel Peinture 1937-1957, Paris 1988, no. 596 (illustrated, p. 296).
Exhibited
Zurich, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Karel Appel: Collages 1949–1962, 1962, no. 865 (illustrated).
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