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Original works by Karel Appel available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Untitled
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
9 works by Karel Appel
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Many works online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
The Crying Crocodile Tries to Catch the Sun, 1956
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
The Discovery, 1986
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain NEW!
3 works online
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Scroll down the alphabetical list for 19 works by Appel
Centraal Museum Database, Utrecht, Netherlands (in Dutch) 
Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin
Clown, 1954
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Chanteurs de Rue
Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands (in Dutch)
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
2 works online
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel NEW!
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Haugesund Museum of Fine Art, Norway (mostly in Norwegian)
Composition
Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York
Flash slideshow; Click "Paintings"
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Farmer with Donkey and Bucket, 1950
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
House Cat, 1978
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch) NEW!
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Nu couché, 1957
S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent, Belgium
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
Questioning Children, 1949
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Albertina, Vienna NEW!
Face in a Landscape, 1961
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands
De ruiter, 1957
Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Miscellaneous Sites:
The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Karel Appel 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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