Selected bibliography
| Year | Author Sort descending | Title | Source | Details | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Kuspit, Donald | Atomic Weather: Karel Appel | Art in America | # 4 (April 1985), pp. 160-163 | Article |
| 1991 | Kuspit, Donald | Karel Appel at the Gemeentemuseum | Artforum International | (review) (March 1991), p. 145 | 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 | |
| 2004 | Kuspit, Donald | The decline of the cult of the unconscious: running on empty | The End of Art, Camebridge, 2004, pp. 89-142 | Article | |
| 1993 | Kuspit, Donald | Karel Appel at André Emmerich Gallery | Artforum International | (review) # 6 (February 1993), p. 96 | Article |
| 2004 | Kuspit, Donald | Karel Appel: Mad Artist | (lecture at the Dutch Embassy in Washington), April 27, 2004 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1994 | Kuspit, Donald | Karel Appel Sculpture. A Catalogue Raisonné | H. N. Abrams, New York, 1994 | Monograph | |
| 1987 | Kuspit, Donald | Karel Appel: Recent Paintings and Sculpture | exh. cat. Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, 1987 |
Catalogue | |
| 1991 | Lahusen, Margarita | Karel Appel, Portrait Emmanuel Looten 1956 | Kleine Werkmonographie 78, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, 1991 | Article | |
| 1989 | Lamarque-Mouzon, Mary Lou | Karel Appel, le vertige du noir | Art Thèmes | (interview)(October - November 1989), p. 15 | Article |
| 1984 | Lamarque-Mouzon, Mary-Lou | Karel Appel, Une certaine liberté de propos | Art Thèmes | (interview) 1984, pp. 14-15 | Article |
| 1987 | Lamarque-Mouzon, Mary-Lou | La 'saisie' Karel Appel | Art Thèmes | (June - July 1987), p. 11 | Article |
| 1977 | Lambert, Jean-Clarence | Éloge de la Folie | Yves Rivière, Paris, 1977 | Monograph | |
| 1982 | Lambert, Jean-Clarence | Karel Appel. Le grognement de l’ours | Canal | # 45/46 (April 1982) |
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 |
| 1991 | Lambert, Jean-Clarence | La voie de la main gauche | Le règne Imaginal, part 1 and 2. Éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris, series «Diagonales», 1991, pp. 115-140 (reprint from 1978) | Article | |
| 1983 | Lambert, Jean-Clarence | Cobra | Ste Nlle des Editions du Chêne, Paris and Fonds Mercator, Antwerp, 1983. Co-published by Abbeville Press, Inc, New York, 1983 |
Miscellanious | |
| 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 | |
| 1987 | Lambert, Jean-Clarence | Karel Appel: la terre | La revue de'l'Opéra de Paris | # 47 (April 1987), pp. 16-19 | Article |
| 2000 | Lamorée, Jhim | Het interview: Karel Appel | PS van de week | (supplement to Het Parool), September 2, 2000, pp. 16-20 | Article |
| 1965 | Lampe, George | Koloriet in beweging: Appel en het bedreigde paradijs | Vrij Nederland | July 31, 1965 | Article |
| 2013 | Lehmann-Brockhaus, Ursula | Karel Appel | Incontro internazionale della ceramica, Albisola, Sommer 1954. Appel, Baj, Corneille, Dangelo, Jorn, Matta in der Werkstatt Mazzotti Giuseppe, Campisano Editore, Rome, 2013, pp. 21-45; 171-180 | Article | |
| 1964 | Lévêque, Jean-Jacques | Venise 1963: actualité de Cobra | XXe Siecle | year 26, # 23 (May 1964) |
Article |
| 1996 | Lhote, P | Essai sur le mouvement Cobra. L’ emploi de la couleur chez Asger Jorn, Karel Appel et Pierre Alechinsky | Europäische Hochschulschriften | vol. XXVIII, # 244, 1996 | Article |
| 1960 | Looten, Emmanuel | Karel Appel | exh. cat. Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, 1960 |
Catalogue | |
| 1956 | Looten, Emmanuel | Karel Appel: Portraits | exh. cat. Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, 1956 |
Catalogue | |
| 1960 | Lucebert | Drift op Zolder en Vragende Kinderen | Museumjournaal | (poem), series 5, # 10 (May 1960) | Article |
| 1999 | Lucebert | Dagwerk van Dionysos | (reprint from 1948), RASTER, # 88 (1999), p. 141 | Article | |
| 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 | |
| 1948 | Lucebert | Dagwerk van Dionysos, voor Karel Appel | Poem | 1948 (unpublished) |
Miscellanious |
| 1962 | Lucebert, Oxenaar, R. D. W. & Schierbeek, Bert | Karel Appel | with texts by Lucebert (reprint from 1950), R. W. D. Oxenaar, Bert Schierbeek, exh. cat. Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne, 1962 |
Catalogue | |
| 1961 | Lupasco, Stéphane | Appel, peintre de la vie | XXième Siècle | vol. 23, # 17 (December 1961) | Article |
| 2009 | Lyotard, Jean-François | Karel Appel, Un geste de couleur / Karel Appel, A Gesture of Colour | Universitaire Pers Leuven, 2009 | Monograph | |
| 1989 | Lyotard, Jean-François | Sans Appel | Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts | Article | |
| 1990 | Lyotard, Jean-François | Sans Appel | Artstudio | (reprint from 1989), # 18 (autumn 1990) | Article |
| 1998 | Lyotard, Jean-François | Karel Appel, ein Farbgestus | (includes reprint from 1989), Verlag Gachnang & Springer, Bern/Berlin, 1998 | Monograph | |
| 1959 | Marinotti, Paolo | Dipingere coi tessuti | exh. cat. Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 1959 |
Catalogue | |
| 1959 | Marinotti, Paolo & Michaux, Henri & Sandberg, Willem | Vitalità nell'Arte | exh. cat. Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 1959 & Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany & Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
Catalogue | |
| 1986 | Martin, Rupert | Apocalypse Now. Appel in the eighties | Arnolfini Preview | # 6 (October 1986), pp. 4-5 | Article |
| 1986 | Martin, Rupert & Verdet, André | Karel Appel: paintings 1980-85 | with foreword by Alan Bowness and texts by Rupert Martin, André Verdet (reprint of interview from 1985), exh. cat. Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, 1986 & Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin |
Catalogue | |
| 1998 | Maruyama, Eiko | The World of Karel Appel | The Japanese journal | De Regio Publishers, Amsterdam (April - June 1998) | Article |
| 2008 | McCormick, Carlo | Karel Appel Reconsidered | Paperback, issue 2, 2008, p. 87-89 | Article | |
| 1991 | Medina, Raquel | Retrospectiva de Karel Appel en la Fundació Miró | Diario de Tarragona | October 31, 1991 | Article |
| 1984 | Meijer, Ischa | Nomad | Vrij Nederland | (interview), April 28, 1984 | Article |
| 1990 | Meijer, Ischa | De schilder en het licht | Revu Magazine | (interview), December 1990 | Article |
| 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 |
Catalogue | |
| 1994 | Melikian, Souren | Contemporary Arts: Back to 1980s? | International Herald Tribune | October 29-30, 1994, p. 10 | Article |
| 2019 | Meulemans, Naomi | VOGEL. Karel Appel (1921-2006) en de mythe van het spontane maken | The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerpen, 2019 |
Monograph | |
| 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 |
| 1994 | Miller, Richard | Christian Karel Appel | Cobra, Nouvelles Editions Francaises, Paris, 1994, pp. 134-136 | Article |