Karl Appel

Appel, Carl (Altona 1866 - Hamburg 1937) Tigress with her Offspring Oil/cardboard, 27 x 42 cm, lo. ri. indistinctly sign. Karl Appel as well as indistinctly inscribed. - Animal painter in Düsseldorf, studied at the Düsseldorf academy under E. Dücker, P. Janssen a. J. Bergmann, specialized in wild animals, he exhibited in Düsseldorf as well as at the Munich Glaspalast, in 1913 he returned to Hamburg. - Mus.: Hamburg (Altonaer Mus.), Düsseldorf. - Lit.: Saur, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.

Karel Appel (1921-2006) Senza titolo firmato e datato Appel 70 (in basso a sinistra) acrilico su cartone cm 70,5x56,6 Eseguito nel 1970 Special Notice Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite"). If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. Where there is no symbol Christie's generally sells lots under the Margin Scheme. The final price charged to Buyer's for each lot, is calculated in the following way: 30% of the final bid price of each lot up to and including € 5.000,00 26% of the excess of the hammer price above €5.000,00 and up and including € 400.000,00 18,5% of the excess of the hammer price above €400.000,00 Provenance Galleria Arte Verso, Genova Galerie Ariel, Parigi

Circus Series: Cat; and Dog , 1978 Two wood engravings in colors with embossing, on Arches paper, the full sheets, both S. 30 x 22 1/2 in. (76.2 x 57.2 cm). both signed and numbered 88/130 and 61/130 respectively in white crayon (there were also 20 artist's proofs in Roman numerals), published by ABCD Editions, both in good condition, Cat framed, Dog contained in original folder.

signed; signed and titled on the stretcher oil on canvas Executed in 1967. PROVENANCE Martha Jackson Gallery, New York Galerie Agnés Lefort, Montreal Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago Sid Deutsch Art Gallery, Inc., New York Acquired by the present owner from the above in June 1976

KAREL APPEL (Dutch,1921-2006) , 1978 Color woodcut with carborundum 30 x 22-1/4 inches (76.2 x 56.5 cm) Ed. 6/130 Signed lower left: Appel Inscribed lower right: Appel, Karel : Dutch painter and sculptor, born 1921,active in Amsterdam, Paris, and New York. Born 25 April 1921. KarelAppel executed two free standing paintings for Tweede VrijzinnigChristelijk Lyceum, The Hague, in 1949-1956. His collaborators onthe project were J.J.P. Oud and Wessel Couzijn. In 1948 heco-founded the Cobra movement in Paris.