Selected bibliography
| Year | Author | Title | Source | Details | Type Sort descending |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Wesseling, Janneke | De Appelwand in het Stedelijk Museum lijkt niet meer geschilderd | NRC Handelsblad | CS en Boeken, September 10, 2010, p. 2 | Article |
| 1971 | Jespersen, Gunnar | Musik er min inspiration | Berlingske Tidende | Article | |
| 1984 | Tuyl, Gijs van | The New Reality of Karel Appel | Dutch Art and Architecture Today | December 16, 1984 | Article |
| 1990 | Lyotard, Jean-François | Sans Appel | Artstudio | (reprint from 1989), # 18 (autumn 1990) | Article |
| 1995 | Steiner, Bertram Karl | Geschöpft aus der Ursuppe der Avantgarde | Kärntner Tageszeitung | November 29, 1995 | Article |
| 1946 | Klinkenberg, H | Karel Appel | Palaestra. Maandblad voor jonge kunstenaars | year 1, # 3 (December 1946), p. 17 |
Article |
| 1962 | Gans, Louis | La Contribution Hollandaise au développement international de l’art depuis 1945 | Vie des Arts: Revue Canadienne Trimestrielle | (autmn 1962), pp. 21-27 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 1957 | Doelman, Cornelis | Karel Appel. L'aventure de la sensation extasiée | Quadrum. Revue internationale d’art moderne | # 3, 1957, pp. 41-48 |
Article |
| 1990 | Meijer, Ischa | De schilder en het licht | Revu Magazine | (interview), December 1990 | Article |
| 1981 | Karel Appel in New York | Haagsche Post | January 3, 1981 | Article | |
| 1987 | Verdet, André | Karel Appel à Nice | Cimaise | # 190, (September - October 1987) | Article |
| 1993 | Vrijman, Jan | Joop Colson, bohémien en regent | Groeneveld, herinneringen aan een landhuis in Baarn. 1946-1961, Hermen Molendijk Stichting / Centrum Beeldende Kunst Amersfoort, 1993 | Article | |
| 2000 | Ellenbroek, Willem | De handen van Appel | de Volkskrant magazine | # 54, September 9, 2000 | Article |
| 1957 | George, Waldemar | Karel Appel: Le Hollandais volant | Prisme des Arts | # 15 (1957-58), pp.41-43 | Article |
| 1973 | Bibeb | Karel Appel: Mijn LSD is m’n verf | Vrij Nederland | December 22, 1973 | Article |
| 1990 | Versteeg, Coos | Karel Appel, vechter tegen de slaap | Haagsche Courant | December 8, 1990 | Article |
| 1981 | Vree, Freddy de | Karel Appel in Kunstforum | Kunstecho's | year 10, # 5 (September - October 1981) |
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 |
| 2000 | Jansen, Bert | Dynamische jeugdigheid: Nieuw, meeslepend werk van Karel Appel in Stedelijk Museum | Het Financieele Dagblad | July 8, 2000 | Article |
| 2000 | Kayzer, Wim | Karel Appel. Je bent er en je bent er niet | Het boek van de schoonheid en de troost | Uitgeverij Contact, Amsterdam/Antwerp, 2000, pp. 158-166 | Article |
| 2011 | Goossens, Guido | Monumentale kunst | In opdracht: zestig jaar percentageregeling beeldende kunst bij Rijksgebouwen, SUN, Amsterdam, 2011, pp. 317-321 | Article | |
| 1957 | Rouve, Pierre | Of Appel and Tradition | Art News and Review (April 1957) | Article | |
| 1987 | Verhofstad, Juliette | Appelbar, 1951 | Op het tweede gezicht | a bulletin published by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, March 1987, pp. 203-206 | Article |
| 2000 | Lamorée, Jhim | Het interview: Karel Appel | PS van de week | (supplement to Het Parool), September 2, 2000, pp. 16-20 | Article |
| 1974 | Kelly, Mary Lou | Modern Masters' ‘Primal Images’ | The Christian Science Monitor | Article | |
| 1949 | Voskuil, J.J. | Een omstreden wandschildering | Kroniek van Kunst en Kultuur | year 10, # 6 (June 1949) |
Article |
| 1988 | Ragon, Michel | Karel Appel | exh. cat. Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1988 |
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| 2012 | Bashkoff, Tracey | Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949 - 1960 | with texts by Tracey Bashkoff et al., exh. cat. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2012 |
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| 1958 | Sandberg, Willem | Karel Appel | exh. cat. Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne, 1958 |
Catalogue | |
| 1975 | Read, Herbert | Appel: Paintings | with text by Herbert Read (excerpt from 1962), interview with Karel Appel by Alan Hanlon and Richard Graburn (excerpt from 1972), exh. cat. Wildenstein, London, 1975 |
Catalogue | |
| 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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| 1996 | Baum, Peter & Kaiser, Franz-W. | Karel Appel. Gemälde, Gouachen, Zeichnungen 1950-1965 | with texts by Peter Baum, Franz-W. Kaiser (transcript of speech from 1994), exh. cat. BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, 1996 |
Catalogue | |
| 2006 | Sailer, John | Karel Appel: Last Paintings | exh. cat Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 2006 |
Catalogue | |
| 2024 | Friedel, Helmut | The essence of landscape | exh. cat. Karel Appel: Toscana, Galleria Poggiali, Florence, 2024 |
Catalogue | |
| 1988 | Appel, Karel & Hunter, Sam | Karel Appel: Portraits from the Titan Series | with texts by Karel Appel, Sam Hunter et al., exh. cat. Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, 1988 |
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| 2001 | Ragon, Michel | Karel Appel: Sag zum Abschied leise Servus | exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Paris, 2001 |
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| 1985 | Pincus-Witten, Robert | Karel Appel: CoBrA Paintings 1948-1951 | exh. cat. James Goodman Gallery, New York, 1985 |
Catalogue | |
| 2024 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | Karel Appel in Italy | exh. cat. Karel Appel: Toscana, Galleria Poggiali, Florence, 2024 |
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| 1951 | Cobra, Revue international de l’art experimental | # 10 (autumn 1951), used as exh. cat. for IIe Exposition |
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| 1982 | Beeren, Wim | Het Nieuwe Werk van Karel Appel 1979 – 1981 | exh. cat. Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1982 |
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| 2001 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | Karel Appel: Beelden 1936–2000 | with text by Franz-W. Kaiser (excerpt from 1998), exh. cat. Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, The Netherlands |
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| 2013 | Stokvis, Willemijn | Karel Appel. I do not paint, I hit! | exh. cat. Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark, 2013 |
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| 1976 | Redeker, Hans | Karel Appel: schilderijen, gouaches, acryls, keramische beelden 1950–1975 | exh. cat. Galerie Nova Spectra, The Hague, 1976 |
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| 1985 | Meijer, Ischa & Towarnicki, Frédéric de | Karel Appel: New Yorker Bilder 1984–1985 | with texts by Ischa Meijer (excerpt of interview from 1984) and Frédéric de Towarnicki (excerpt of interview from 1977), exh. cat. Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, 1985 |
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| 1951 | Internationale d’ Art Experimental | Palais des Beaux-Arts, Liège, Belgium, 1951 |
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| 1982 | Esteban, Claude | Appel et Alechinsky. Encres à deux pinceaux, peintures, etc. | with explanation by Pierre Alechinsky, foreword by Christian Dotremont (reprint from 1978), exh. cat. Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, 1982 |
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