Selected bibliography
| Year | Author | Title | Source | Details | Type Sort descending |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Monnin, Francoise | Karel Appel, un bricoleur artiste | Connaisance des Arts | # 621 (November 2004), pp. 52 – 59 | Article |
| 1984 | Tuyl, Gijs van | The New Reality of Karel Appel | Dutch Art and Architecture Today | December 16, 1984 | Article |
| 1977 | Jespersen, Gunnar | Karel Appel, Cobra | Gyldendal, Copenhagen, 1974, pp. 129-132 | Article | |
| 1990 | Lyotard, Jean-François | Sans Appel | Artstudio | (reprint from 1989), # 18 (autumn 1990) | Article |
| 2015 | Fuchs, Rudi | Esse est percipi. Kijken | De Groene Amsterdammer | July 29, 2015 | Article |
| 1993 | Dannatt, Adrian | Karel Appel at André Emmerich Gallery | ARTnews | (review), vol. 92, # 3 (March 1993) | Article |
| 1953 | Bowles, Paul | Paris! City of the Arts | Holiday | (April 1953), pp. 111–121 | Article |
| 1981 | Coutinho, Wilson | A pintura de um tigre dentro da jaula | Jornal do Brasil | September 15, 1981 |
Article |
| 1987 | Restany, Pierre | Karel Appel, le CoBrA collecteur | Beaux Arts Magazine | # 47 (June 1987), pp. 56-61 | Article |
| 1995 | Pentz, Mimi | Karel Appel Sculpture | Artvoice | vol. 6, issue 2, January 18-31, 1995 | Article |
| 2004 | Pietrzak, Brigitte & Villemur, Frédérique | L’Expérience matiériste | Paul Facchetti: Le studio. Art informel at abstraction Lyrique, Actes Sud, Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), 2004, pp. 56-85 |
Article | |
| 1977 | Kunstmann, Francoise | Entretien avec Karel Appel | Info Artitudes | (interview), # 19 (June 1977), p. 12 |
Article |
| 1990 | Meijer, Ischa | De schilder en het licht | Revu Magazine | (interview), December 1990 | Article |
| 2015 | Smith, Roberta | Cobra Artists Worked With a Passionate Style to Match Their Name | New York Times | October 8, 2015 | Article |
| 1993 | Houts, Cathérine van | Appel: ik twijfel tot de laatste lik | Het Parool | February 16, 1993 | Article |
| 1953 | Claus, Hugo | Ontmoeting met Karel Appel | Het Laatste Nieuws | (interview), Het Laatste Nieuws, November 4, 1953 | Article |
| 1981 | Karel Appel in New York | Haagsche Post | January 3, 1981 | Article | |
| 1965 | Claus, Hugo | Mélancolie et Fureur d'Appel | XXième Siècle | # 25 (June 1965), pp. 105-106 |
Article |
| 1987 | Verdet, André | Karel Appel à Nice | Cimaise | # 190, (September - October 1987) | Article |
| 1995 | Steiner, Bertram Karl | Geschöpft aus der Ursuppe der Avantgarde | Kärntner Tageszeitung | November 29, 1995 | Article |
| 1977 | Towarnicki, Frédéric de | Appel, l'Anti-Robot | Connaissance des Arts | (interview), Paris, 1977 |
Article |
| 1990 | Versteeg, Coos | Karel Appel, vechter tegen de slaap | Haagsche Courant | December 8, 1990 | Article |
| 1962 | Dotremont, Christian | "Cobra" | L'Oeuil. Revue d'art | # 96 (December 1962), pp.56-65 |
Article |
| 1993 | Kuspit, Donald | Karel Appel at André Emmerich Gallery | Artforum International | (review) # 6 (February 1993), p. 96 | Article |
| 2000 | Brouwer, Aart | Nationale wildeman. Profiel: Karel Appel | De Groene Amsterdammer | September 16, 2000 | Article |
| 1953 | Fitzsimmons, James | New York: A Glittering Constellation. Introducing 33 Younger European Painters | ART Digest | December 1, 1953, pp. 7-8; 25-26 |
Article |
| 1981 | Vree, Freddy de | Karel Appel in Kunstforum | Kunstecho's | year 10, # 5 (September - October 1981) |
Article |
| 1965 | Geirlandt, Karel | Karel Appel: Vliegende Man, 1958 | Openbaar kunstbezit Vlaanderen, 1965 | Article | |
| 1987 | Verdet, André | Sur les traces d'une métamorphose: Karel Appel, l'oeil pensé (On the trail of a metamorphosis: Karel Appel, the thinking eye) | Cimaise | # 187 (March - May 1987) | Article |
| 1978 | Wingen, Ed | Dreissig Jahre Karel Appel | with text by Ed Wingen (reprint from 1977), exh. cat. Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany, 1978 & Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn & Kunsthalle, Wilhelmshaven, Germany |
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| 2016 | Kaiser, Franz-W. & Fuchs, Rudi & Ottmann, Klaus | Karel Appel Retrospectief / Karel Appel Retrospective | exh. cat. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 2016 |
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| 1954 | Doelman, Cornelis | Olanda | exh. cat. Biennale di Venezia XXVII, 1954 |
Catalogue | |
| 2005 | Fuchs, Rudi | Karel Appel. Opere 1991 – 2002 | exh. cat. Galleria Arte 92, Milan, 2005 |
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| 1978 | Dypreau, Jean | Karel Appel. Peintures et sculptures | exh. cat. Fondation Chateau de Jau, Cases-de-Pène, France, 1978 |
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| 1991 | Fuchs, Rudi | Karel Appel: Black & White Paintings | exh. cat. Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, 1991 |
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| 2016 | Ottmann, Klaus | Karel Appel. A Gesture of Color. Paintings and Sculptures, 1947-2004 | exh. cat. The Phillips Collection, Washington, 2016 |
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| 1954 | Tapié, Michel | Appel | exh. cat. Studio Paul Fachetti, Paris, 1954 |
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| 1996 | Fuchs, Rudi | Appel. Figures et paysages | exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Paris, 1996 |
Catalogue | |
| 2005 | Fuchs, Rudi & Steininger, Florian | Karel Appel: Retrospective 1945 – 2005 | with texts by Rudi Fuchs (reprints from 1990 and 1995), Florian Steininger (reprint from 2002), exh. cat. Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, 2005 |
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| 1985 | Barilli, Renato & Beeren, Wim & Frankenstein, Alfred & Josephus-Jitta, Mariette & Salvi, Sergio | Karel Appel | with texts by Renato Barilli, Wim Beeren (reprint from 1982), Alfred Frankenstein (reprint from 1980), Mariette Josephus-Jitta (reprint from 1982) Sergio Salvi, exh. cat. Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence, 1985 |
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| 2016 | Kaiser, Franz-W. & Lotz, Rouven | Karel Appel. Der abstrakte Blick | exh. cat. Emil Schumacher Museum Hagen, Germany, 2016 |
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| 1994 | Appel, Karel & Claus, Hugo & Fuchs, Rudi & Hunter, Sam & McCormick, Carlo | Karel Appel Retrospective | with texts by Karel Appel (reprint from 1971), Hugo Claus (reprint from 1962), Rudi Fuchs (reprint from 1990), Sam Hunter (reworked text from 1986), Carlo McCormick (reprint from 1990), exh. cat. The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, 1994 |
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| 1954 | Tapié, Michel | Karel Appel: First American Exhibition | with text by Michel Tapié (reprint from exh. cat. Studio Paul Fachetti, 1954), exh. cat. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1954 |
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| 1988 | Ragon, Michel | Karel Appel | exh. cat. Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1988 |
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| 1996 | Fuchs, Rudi | Karel Appel: Variazioni sul tema | with text by Rudi Fuchs (transcript/excerpt of radio broadcast from 1995), exh. cat. Fondazione Ambrosetti Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy, 1996 |
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| 2006 | Heymer, Kay | The Guggenheim. Die Sammlung | with texts by Kay Heymer et al., exh. cat. Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2006 |
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| 1961 | Lucebert | Karel Appel | with text by Lucebert (first publication of text from 1950 and excerpt of poem from 1960), exh. cat. Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands & Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, 1961 | Catalogue | |
| 1985 | Pincus-Witten, Robert | Karel Appel: CoBrA Paintings 1948-1951 | exh. cat. James Goodman Gallery, New York, 1985 |
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| 2016 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | Karel Appel. Paintings from Six Decades | with foreword by Gabriele Wimmer & John Sailer, texts by Rudi Fuchs, Donald Kuspit, exh. cat. Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 2016. |
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| 1994 | Teh-Yu Wang, David | A Retrospective of Karel Appel | with preface by Tsai-Lang Huan and introduction by Rudi Fuchs, exh. cat. Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, 1994 |
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