APPEL, KAREL
1921 Amsterdam - 2006 Zurich

Title: Gelukkige dag.
Date: 1964.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 114 x 146,5cm.
Notation: Signed lower centre: appel. Titled on the stretcher upper left: Gelukkige DAg.
Frame/Pedestal: Studio bar.


Provenance:
- De Beyerd, Breda (today: Stedelijk Museum Breda; directly from the artist)
- Christie's, Amsterdam, 2586th auction, 3rd June 2003, lot 381
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Exhibitions:
- Städtische Kunstgalerie Bochum, 1965, cat. no. 65 (label)
- Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen 1965, cat. no. 76 (label)

Literature:
- Exhib. cat. Karel Appel, paintings, Städtische Kunstgalerie Bochum, Bochum 1965, cat. no. 62 (here differently titled)



- Characteristic pictorial world of Appel from the early creative phase of his international breakthrough
- Multi-layered subject in bright colours.