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Karel Appel

[Dutch Abstract Expressionist Painter, 1921-2006]

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Original works by Karel Appel available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

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

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

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

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

Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Chanteurs de Rue

Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands (in Dutch)  

Flemish Art Collection Database (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
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Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland

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

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands
De ruiter, 1957

Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

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)  

 
Other Web Sites:
Art Collection of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia
2 lithographs (click "Next" to see the second)

Artdreamguide (in Italian)  
Biographical information and a guide to the museums owning important collections of the artist's work.

The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"

 
Articles:
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

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

  
 
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