APPEL, KAREL
1921 Amsterdam - 2006 Zurich
Title: Along the line of the steepest slope.
Date: 1995.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 100 x 81cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower left: appel 95.
Frame/Pedestal: Craftman's frame.
Enclosed with this work is a certificate by the Karel Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, dated 25th May 2005.
Provenance:
- Galleria Arte 92, Milan (label)
- Dorotheum, Vienna, Sale 138, 27th November 2019, lot 382
- Private collection South Germany
- Characteristic impasto work in Appel's rough style of painting
- Appealing colour composition in the abstract expressionist pictorial tradition
- Lively sujet with natural scientific background.