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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.

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Title Personage
Material and technique Oil on canvas
Object type
Painting > Painting > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Height Error: 145,5 is not a valid BCD value cm
Width Error: 113,5 is not a valid BCD value cm
Artists Artist: Karel Appel
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

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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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