This painting dates from Appel’s wildest years. Soon after making it, he was portrayed in a documentary film as a beast of a painter, squeezing paint onto the canvas directly from the tube and attacking the canvas with large brushes and palette knives. Notoriously, Appel once claimed to be ‘just fooling around’, but that was merely provocation. In fact he worked purposefully and with great sensitivity to his materials; like Breitner, but somewhat wilder.
Specifications
| Title | Personage |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Oil on canvas |
| Object type |
Painting
> Painting
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 145,5 cm Width 113,5 cm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Artist:
Karel Appel
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| Accession number | BRL 89-01 (MK) |
| Credits | Loan private collection, 1989 |
| Department | Modern Art |
| Acquisition date | 1989 |
| Creation date | in 1957 |
| Entitled parties | © Karel Appel Foundation, c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2018 |
| Internal exhibitions |
Meneer Delta, een galeriehouder en verzamelaar in het museum (2012) De collectie als tijdmachine (2017) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe |
All about the artist
Karel Appel
Amsterdam 1921 - Zürich 2006
Karel Appel was given a painting set by his uncle when he was fifteen and was encouraged to paint. He studied at the Rijksacademie [National Academy] in...
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