Selected bibliography
| Year | Author | Title Sort descending | Source | Details | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | Dotremont, Christian | "Cobra" | L'Oeuil. Revue d'art | # 96 (December 1962), pp.56-65 |
Article |
| 1986 | Hurlburt, Roger | A Bite of the Appel | News/Sun-Sentinel | September 28, 1986 | Article |
| 1994 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | A Description of an Artistic Position | (speech at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan), September 18, 1994 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1995 | Huntington, Richard | A Jolly Sort of Gloom at the Anderson | The Buffalo News | January 15, 1995 | Article |
| 1981 | Coutinho, Wilson | A pintura de um tigre dentro da jaula | Jornal do Brasil | September 15, 1981 |
Article |
| 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 |
Catalogue | |
| 1983 | Ashton, Dore | Affirmation and Apocalypse in Karel Appel's Recent Paintings | Arts Magazine | # 8 (April 1983) pp. 68-69 | Article |
| 1992 | Armengaud, Françoise | Alors naît l'Animal | Bestiaire CoBrA | Edition la Difference, Paris, series «Mobile Matière», 1992, pp. 105-151 | Article |
| 1995 | Misar, Grete | Alterswerk eines Giganten | Die Furche | December 7, 1995 | Article |
| 1956 | Tominaga, S | An Artistic Assertion on Karel Appel | Mizue. A monthly review of fine arts | # 616 (November 1956), pp. 3-7 |
Article |
| 1995 | Kruntorad, Paul | Anmalen gegen die Unübersichtlichkeit | Der Standard | June 19, 1995 | Article |
| 1986 | Martin, Rupert | Apocalypse Now. Appel in the eighties | Arnolfini Preview | # 6 (October 1986), pp. 4-5 | Article |
| 1954 | Tapié, Michel | Appel | exh. cat. Studio Paul Fachetti, Paris, 1954 |
Catalogue | |
| 1957 | Moreni, Mattia | Appel | exh. cat. Galerie Stadler, Paris, 1957 |
Catalogue | |
| 1957 | Sandberg, Willem | Appel | with text by Willem Sandberg (reprint from 1956), exh. cat. Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, 1957 |
Catalogue | |
| 1995 | Pasini, Roberto | Appel | L'Informale: Stati Uniti, Europa, Italia | CLUEB, Bologna, Italy, 1995, pp. 274-276 | Article |
| 1961 | Boudaille, George | Appel | Cimaise | series VIII, # 3 (September - October 1961) | Article |
| 1964 | Read, Herbert | Appel | exh. cat. American Art Gallery, Copenhagen |
Catalogue | |
| 1965 | Dotremont, Christian & Lucebert & Read, Herbert & Schierbeek, Bert & Ting, Walasse & Vinkenoog, Simon | Appel | with texts by Christian Dotremont, Lucebert (including reprint from 1950), Herbert Read (excerpt from 1957), Bert Schierbeek, Walasse Ting, Simon Vinkenoog, exh. cat. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam & Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1965 & Städtische Kunstgalerie, Bochum, Germany & Charlottenborg, Copenhagen & Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Germany & Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
Catalogue | |
| 1981 | Honnef, Klaus | Appel | with text by Klaus Honnef (reprint from exh. cat. Dreissig Jahre Karel Appel, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven), exh. cat. Museu de Arte do São Paulo, 1981 |
Catalogue | |
| 1950 | Dotremont, Christian | Appel | Bibliothèque de CoBrA, series «d'Arts Plastiques» | Ejnar Munksgaard, Copenhagen (1950) |
Monograph |
| 1989 | Hunter, Sam & Kuspit, Donald & Lyotard, Jean-Francois & Ragon, Michel & Wilde, Edy, de | Appel | with texts by Sam Hunter (reprint from 1986), Donald Kuspit, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Ragon, Edy de Wilde, exh. cat. The National Museum of Art, Osaka & The Seibu Museum, Tokyo, 1989 & The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo & Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts & Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art & Hakone Open Air Museum, Ninotaira |
Catalogue | |
| 1978 | Appel & Alechinsky. Encres a deux pinceaux | with foreword by Christian Dotremont and poems by Hugo Claus, Yves Rivière, Paris, 1978. Co-published as Zwart, Landshoff, Bentveld-Aerdenhout, 1978 and as Appel & Alechinsky. Two-brush paintings, Yves Rivière, Paris, 1980 | Miscellanious | ||
| 2021 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | Appel after CoBrA: Collages 1957-1968 | Karel Appel. Collages 1957-1968, published by Jahn und Jahn, Munich |
Monograph | |
| 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 |
Catalogue | |
| 1984 | Jamie, Rasaad | Appel Now | Artscribe | (interview), # 45 (February - April 1984), pp. 41-47 | Article |
| 1963 | Schierbeek, Bert | Appel Nudes | exh. cat. Gimpel and Hanover Galerie Zürich, 1963 & Galerie Europe, Paris & Gimpel Fils, London & Martha Jackson Gallery, New York |
Catalogue | |
| 1964 | Citroen, Paul | Appel or Citroen | Delta. A Review of Arts Life and Thought in the Netherlands | # 1 (spring 1964), pp. 13-23 |
Article |
| 1955 | Vrijman, Jan | Appel rolt ver van de stam: Portret van Karel Appel | Vrij Nederland | January 29, 1955, p. 3 |
Article |
| 1982 | Houts, Cathérine van | Appel verkent 't sentiment | Het Parool | January 22, 1982 | Article |
| 1972 | Hanlon, Arthur & Graburn, Richard & Rombout, Luke | Appel's Appels | with interview by Alan Hanlon and Richard Graburn and text by Luke Rombout, exh. cat. Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, 1972 |
Catalogue | |
| 1977 | Towarnicki, Frédéric de | Appel, l'Anti-Robot | Connaissance des Arts | (interview), Paris, 1977 |
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 |
| 1961 | Lupasco, Stéphane | Appel, peintre de la vie | XXième Siècle | vol. 23, # 17 (December 1961) | Article |
| 1996 | Fuchs, Rudi | Appel. Figures et paysages | exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Paris, 1996 |
Catalogue | |
| 1958 | Ragon, Michel | Appel: Gouaches et céramiques | exh. cat. Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, 1958 |
Catalogue | |
| 1993 | Houts, Cathérine van | Appel: ik twijfel tot de laatste lik | Het Parool | February 16, 1993 | Article |
| 1998 | Stoullig, Claire | Appel: Natural Phenomenon | exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Paris, 1998 |
Catalogue | |
| 1957 | Read, Herbert | Appel: New paintings | with preface by Herbert Read (reprint from exh. cat. Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1957), exh. cat. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1957 |
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 | |
| 1987 | Verhofstad, Juliette | Appelbar, 1951 | Op het tweede gezicht | a bulletin published by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, March 1987, pp. 203-206 | Article |
| 1965 | Hoffmann, Hans | Appelboom in Vondelpark | Panorama | year 52, # 14, April 3, 1965, pp. 34-5 | Article |
| 2007 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | Appels Akte | exh. cat. Karel Appel. Monumentale Zeichnungen, Albertina Museum, Vienna, 2007, with foreword by Klaus Albrecht Schröder; translated from German to English by Andrew Boreham, September 2021 as “Appel’s Nudes” |
Catalogue | |
| 1970 | Meyere, Jos A. L. de & Vinkenoog, Simon | Appel’s Oogappels | Appel’s Oogappels | (reprint from 1963), exh. cat. Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1970 |
Catalogue |
| 1956 | Coates, R.M | Art Galleries: Exhibition at Jackson Gallery | The New Yorker | May 5, 1956 | Article |
| 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 |
Catalogue | |
| 1987 | Ratcliff, Carter | Artist's Dialogue: Karel Appel -Optimism and Apocalypse- | Architectural Digest | (April 1987), p. 44 | Article |
| 1985 | Kuspit, Donald | Atomic Weather: Karel Appel | Art in America | # 4 (April 1985), pp. 160-163 | Article |
| 1985 | Dank, Ralf | Aus dem Chaos wächst das Bild | Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger | (interview), # 229/20, October 3, 1985, p. 20 | Article |
| 1979 | Towarnicki, Frédéric de | Aux Etats-Unis 1977-79 | (interview), 1979 (unpublished) | Miscellanious |