Selected bibliography
| Year | Author | Title | Source | Details | Type Sort ascending |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Lyotard, Jean-François | Sans Appel | Artstudio | (reprint from 1989), # 18 (autumn 1990) | Article |
| 2010 | Volpato, Elena | Karel Appel | Ten Years and Beyond. The Collection of the Fondazione per l'Arte Moderne e Contemporanea - CRT for Turin and Piedmont, Archive Books, Berlin, 2010, pp. 110-111 | Article | |
| 1995 | Kraft, Martin | Karel Appel. Lebende Legende | Neue Züricher Zeitung | September 29, 1995 | Article |
| 2004 | Dumont, Benoît | Karel Appel, peintre au regard toujours neuf | Fortis Tribune | # 17 (September 2004), p. 16 | Article |
| 1965 | Lampe, George | Koloriet in beweging: Appel en het bedreigde paradijs | Vrij Nederland | July 31, 1965 | 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 |
| 1992 | Thorn-Petit, Liliane | Karel Appel | (excerpt from interview for RTL Television, Luxembourg), Portraits d’artistes, Editions Serpenoise, Metz, 1992 | Article | |
| 1999 | Lucebert | Dagwerk van Dionysos | (reprint from 1948), RASTER, # 88 (1999), p. 141 | Article | |
| 1960 | Onnen, Frank | Karel Appel. Levensloop en œuvre | Elsevier | July 23, 1960 | Article |
| 1978 | Lambert, Jean-Clarence | Appel, la voie de la main gauche | Colóquio, revista trimestrial | #36, 2nd series, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (March 1978), pp. 16-23 | Article |
| 1990 | Meijer, Ischa | De schilder en het licht | Revu Magazine | (interview), December 1990 | Article |
| 2010 | Wesseling, Janneke | De Appelwand in het Stedelijk Museum lijkt niet meer geschilderd | NRC Handelsblad | CS en Boeken, September 10, 2010, p. 2 | Article |
| 1995 | Kruntorad, Paul | Anmalen gegen die Unübersichtlichkeit | Der Standard | June 19, 1995 | Article |
| 2004 | Gollin, Rob | In het Paleis stoten schilderijen elkaar wakker | de Volkskrant | art section, October 14, 2004, pp. 16-17 | Article |
| 1954 | Alvard, Julien | Vous êtes libres | Cimaise | series 1, # 8 (July - August 1954) |
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 |
| 1993 | Kuspit, Donald | Singing Donkeys: Nieuwe beelden van Karel Appel | with foreword by Rudi Fuchs, exh. cat. Museum Paleis Lange Voorhout, The Hague, 1993 |
Article | |
| 1990 | Versteeg, Coos | Karel Appel, vechter tegen de slaap | Haagsche Courant | December 8, 1990 | Article |
| 1995 | Misar, Grete | Vom Chaos zur Ordnung | Klagenfurter Zeitung | November 30, 1995 | Article |
| 2004 | Hove, Jan van | Karel Appel over Vlaanderen, Rembrandt en de angst van de wereld | De Standaard | (interview), October 13, 2004, p. 25 | Article |
| 1954 | Tapié, Michel | Devenir d’un art autre | United States Lines | Paris Review (June 1954) | Article |
| 1987 | Verhofstad, Juliette | Appelbar, 1951 | Op het tweede gezicht | a bulletin published by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, March 1987, pp. 203-206 | Article |
| 1993 | Bakker, Jan-Hendrik | Karel Appel. Ik ben 72 en begin helemaal opnieuw | Haagsche Courant | February 16, 1993 | Article |
| 1995 | Misar, Grete | Alterswerk eines Giganten | Die Furche | December 7, 1995 | Article |
| 2004 | Kuspit, Donald | The decline of the cult of the unconscious: running on empty | The End of Art, Camebridge, 2004, pp. 89-142 | Article | |
| 2004 | Monnin, Francoise | Karel Appel, un bricoleur artiste | Connaisance des Arts | # 621 (November 2004), pp. 52 – 59 | Article |
| 1993 | Dannatt, Adrian | Karel Appel at André Emmerich Gallery | ARTnews | (review), vol. 92, # 3 (March 1993) | Article |
| 1995 | Pasini, Roberto | Appel | L'Informale: Stati Uniti, Europa, Italia | CLUEB, Bologna, Italy, 1995, pp. 274-276 | 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 | |
| 1955 | Vrijman, Jan | Appel rolt ver van de stam: Portret van Karel Appel | Vrij Nederland | January 29, 1955, p. 3 |
Article |
| 1993 | Houts, Cathérine van | Appel: ik twijfel tot de laatste lik | Het Parool | February 16, 1993 | Article |
| 1961 | Boudaille, George | Appel | Cimaise | series VIII, # 3 (September - October 1961) | Article |
| 1991 | Barten, Walter | Verftube als raket | Financieel Dagblad | January 14, 1991 | Article |
| 2011 | Goossens, Guido | Monumentale kunst | In opdracht: zestig jaar percentageregeling beeldende kunst bij Rijksgebouwen, SUN, Amsterdam, 2011, pp. 317-321 | Article | |
| 1995 | Steiner, Bertram Karl | Geschöpft aus der Ursuppe der Avantgarde | Kärntner Tageszeitung | November 29, 1995 | Article |
| 1968 | Ashton, Dore | Cobra in Context | Arts magazine | (February 1968), pp. 106-109 |
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 |
| 1961 | Boudaille, George | Une nouvelle figuration? Karel Appel ouvre la voie d’un expressionnisme nouveau | Les Lettres Françaises | # 948, 2 – 18 October 1962 |
Article |
| 1991 | Blom, Ansuya | Einfach Kompliziert | Kunst- en Museumjournaal | # 5 (February 1991) | Article |
| 1968 | Dull, Ben | Daden en woorden van Karel Appel | Het Parool | (interview), November 15, 1968 |
Article |
| 1988 | Armengaud, Françoise | Entretien avec Karel Appel | Titres | (interview), Edition Meridiens Klincksieck, Paris, series «Esthétique», 1988, pp. 143-157 | 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 |
| 1961 | Lupasco, Stéphane | Appel, peintre de la vie | XXième Siècle | vol. 23, # 17 (December 1961) | Article |
| 1991 | Bode, Ursula | Eine Substanz die Wärme transportiert | Süddeutsche Zeitung | # 167, July 22, 1991 | Article |
| 1956 | Coates, R.M | Art Galleries: Exhibition at Jackson Gallery | The New Yorker | May 5, 1956 | Article |