Selected bibliography
| Year | Author | Title Sort ascending | Source | Details | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Burnstock, Aviva | “An Investigation of Water-Sensitive Oil Paints in Twentieth-Century Paintings | Modern Paints Uncovered | London, Tate Modern, 2006, pp. 177-187 |
Article |
| 2022 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | [Untitled] | exh. cat. Karel Appel. Het nieuwe werk / The New Work, Christian Ouwens Galerie, Rotterdam, 2022 |
Catalogue | |
| 1953 | Sweeney, James Johnson | Younger European painters | exh. cat. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1953 |
Catalogue | |
| 1980 | Lambert, Jean-Clarence | Works on Paper | with foreword by Marshall McLuhan and text by Jean-Clarence Lambert (reprint from 1978), Abbeville Press, New York, 1980 |
Monograph | |
| 1963 | Gasser, Manuel | Wie man Karel Appel ignoriert | Du | year 23, # 271 (September 1963) |
Article |
| 2008 | Wijnberg, Louise | Watergevoelige olieverfschilderijen: werkwijze van Jasper Johns en Karel Appel | kM: materiaaltechnische informatie over beeldende kunst | # 66, 2008 |
Article |
| 1954 | Alvard, Julien | Vous êtes libres | Cimaise | series 1, # 8 (July - August 1954) |
Article |
| 1995 | Misar, Grete | Vom Chaos zur Ordnung | Klagenfurter Zeitung | November 30, 1995 | Article |
| 2019 | Meulemans, Naomi | VOGEL. Karel Appel (1921-2006) en de mythe van het spontane maken | The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerpen, 2019 |
Monograph | |
| 1959 | Marinotti, Paolo & Michaux, Henri & Sandberg, Willem | Vitalità nell'Arte | exh. cat. Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 1959 & Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany & Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
Catalogue | |
| 1991 | Barten, Walter | Verftube als raket | Financieel Dagblad | January 14, 1991 | Article |
| 1964 | Lévêque, Jean-Jacques | Venise 1963: actualité de Cobra | XXe Siecle | year 26, # 23 (May 1964) |
Article |
| 1990 | Ellenbroek, Willem | Van het aapstadium groei ik naar de mens | de Volkskrant | December 7, 1990 | 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 |
| 1952 | Tapié, Michel | Un Art Autre | Gabriel-Giraud et Fils | Paris, 1952 |
Miscellanious |
| 1998 | Vagheggi, Paolo | Tutti i nemici del CoBrA | La Repubblica | (interview), December 7, 1998 | Article |
| 2002 | Fuchs, Rudi | Tussen kunstenaars. Een romance | (includes reprints from 1990 and 1996), De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, 2002 | Miscellanious | |
| 1999 | Hovdenakk, Per & Kvaran, Gunnar B. | Toys from the Attic | exh. cat. Bergen Museum of Art, Norway, 1999 |
Catalogue | |
| 1987 | Debailleux, H.F. | Tout le monde est endormi... | La Liberation | (interview), August 11, 1987, p. 24 | Article |
| 2009 | Kuspit, Donald | Titanic Power: Karel Appel in the Tradition of the New | April 2009 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1998 | Maruyama, Eiko | The World of Karel Appel | The Japanese journal | De Regio Publishers, Amsterdam (April - June 1998) | Article |
| 1963 | Gribaudo, Ezio & Sandberg, Willem | The Sculpture of Karel Appel | with texts by Ezio Gribaudo and Willem Sandberg (reprint of poem from 1962), Harry N. Abrams Publishers, New York, 1963 |
Monograph | |
| 1987 | Fallon, Brian | The Roaring Boy | The Irish Times | January 14, 1987 | Article |
| 1984 | Tuyl, Gijs van | The New Reality of Karel Appel | Dutch Art and Architecture Today | December 16, 1984 | Article |
| 1992 | Erkel, Ronald van | The Intuitive Logistics of Karel Appel | Nedlloyd World | (autumn 1992), pp. 28-31 | Article |
| 1990 | Fuchs, Rudi | The influence of New York on Karel Appel | NRC Handelsblad | June 22, 1990 |
Article |
| 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 |
Catalogue | |
| 1979 | The Graphic Art of Karel Appel: Art Gallery of Hamilton Collection | with introduction by Glen E. Cumming, exh. cat. Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Ontario, 1979 | Catalogue | ||
| 2004 | Kuspit, Donald | The decline of the cult of the unconscious: running on empty | The End of Art, Camebridge, 2004, pp. 89-142 | Article | |
| 1984 | Tuyl, Gijs van | The comeback of an authentic painter | Metropolis M | # 4 (September - October 1984) | Article |
| 2015 | Gingeras, Alison & Godet, Marie & Laugharn, Fiona | The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up. Cobra & Its Legacy | exh. cat. Blum & Poe, New York, 2015 |
Catalogue | |
| 2003 | Obrist, Hans Ulrich | Taken from a previously unpublished conversation with Karel Appel | Biennale di Ceramica nell’ arte contemporanea, Attese, Milan, 2003, pp. 43-45 | 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 |
| 1982 | Restany, Pierre | Street Art, Le Second Souffle de Karel Appel | Éditions Galilée, Paris, 1982 | Monograph | |
| 1979 | Towarnicki, Frédéric de | Street Art, chapter 1 & 2 | (interview), 1979 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 2002 | Bandini, Mireille | Situationism. The Situationist Utopia | in Achille Bonito Oliva, Art Tribes, Skira, Milan, 2002 | 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 | |
| 1998 | Fuchs, Rudi & Hartog, Arie & Kuspit, Donald | Sculptures without a Hero | with introduction by Erika Röder-Diruf, Martina Rudloff and Paul Scholten, exh. cat. Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, 1998 |
Catalogue | |
| 1990 | Lyotard, Jean-François | Sans Appel | Artstudio | (reprint from 1989), # 18 (autumn 1990) | Article |
| 1989 | Lyotard, Jean-François | Sans Appel | Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts | Article | |
| 2010 | Berne, Eva van | Samenwerking of werken in opdracht? Naoorlogse projecten van J.J.P. Oud met monumentale kunst van Karel Appel | Kunstlicht | year 31, # ¾ (2010) | Article |
| 1991 | Huber, Alfred | Rot ist der Schrei nach Freiheit | Mannheimer Morgen | July 16, 1991 | Article |
| 1995 | Hughes, Robert | Rising from the Ruins | Time | June 26, 1995 | Article |
| 1991 | Medina, Raquel | Retrospectiva de Karel Appel en la Fundació Miró | Diario de Tarragona | October 31, 1991 | Article |
| 1995 | Kimmelman, Michael | Rethinking Postwar Pigeonholes for Art | The New York Times | July 7, 1995 | Article |
| 1958 | Jaffé, H.C.L. | Rencontre au printemps de Karel Appel | Quadrum | Les arts plastiques au nouveau siège de l'Unesco, a special issue of Quadrum, # 6, 1958 | Article |
| 1986 | Beeren, Wim & Hunter, Sam | Recent Paintings and Sculpture; Clouds, Windmill, Nudes and Other Mythologies | with texts by Wim Beeren, Sam Hunter (reworked text from exh. cat. Marisa del Re, 1986), exh. cat. Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1986 |
Catalogue | |
| 1977 | Frankenstein, Alfred | Rambling Around Mexico City | San Francisco Chronicle | October 20, 1977 |
Article |
| 1985 | Towarnicki, Frédéric de & Verdet, André | Propos en Liberté de Karel Appel | with texts by Frédéric de Towarnicki (includes reprint of interview from 1977 and first publications of four interviews from 1979) and André Verdet, Éditions Galilée, Paris, 1985 Verdet, André, Fenêtres de Karel Appel, Éditions Galilée, Paris, 1985 |
Monograph | |
| 1984 | Paparoni, Demetrio | Primavera senza fine | Tema Celeste | # 4 (October 1984), pp. 2-6 | Article |