Animal aux Lunettes Noire by Karel Appel, 1957 Start Price USD 75,000.00 Current Price USD 75,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, June 23, 2008 End Time Thursday, July 03, 2008 Location Colts Neck, NJ See more about 'Animal aux Lunettes Noire by Karel Appel, 1957' Description Animal aux Lunettes Noire by Karel Appel, 1957     We acquired this rare, one of a kind, Appel piece in 1996 from a New York City art dealer. Appraisal information is attached on piece of paper on the back of the frame. It is really an unusual piece but still awe inspiring. Very beautiful and original, a credit to the avant-garde movements. Specifications:Stock #:     329                Photo #:     97829Medium:     Collage         Size:     29.5" x 21.5"Composed of: Oil, gouache, black ink and paper collage mounted on board. Signed and dated "Appel 57" in lower left corner.Biography of Karel AppelChristiaan Karel Appel (25 April 1921 – 3 May 2006) was a Dutch painter and sculptor. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement COBRA.Christiaan Karel Appel was born on 25 April 1921 in his parents' house at Dapperstraat 7 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. On the ground floor, his father, Jan Appel, had a barber shop. His mother, born Johanna Chevalier, was a descendant of French Huguenots. Karel Appel had three brothers.At fourteen, Appel produced his first real painting, on canvas, a still life of a fruit basket. For his fifteenth birthday, his wealthy uncle Karel Chevalier gave him a paint set and an easel. An avid amateur painter himself, Chevalier gave his namesake some lessons in painting.He studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten there from 1940 to 1943 and had his first show in Groningen in 1946. He was influenced by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Jean Dubuffet; he joined the Nederlandse Experimentele Groep and joined CoBrA in 1948 together with Corneille, Constant and Jan Nieuwenhuys (see also Aart Kemink). His 1949 fresco 'Questioning Children' in the Amsterdam City Hall caused controversy and was covered up for ten years.As a result of this controversy Appel moved to Paris in 1950 and he developed his international reputation travelling to Mexico, the USA, Yugoslavia and Brazil. He is particularly noted for his mural work and lived between New York and Florence. He died on 3 May 2006 in Zürich, where he was living at the time. He is buried at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.Information taken from Wikipedia.org at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Appel Place a Bid!

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