Selected bibliography
| Year | Author Sort descending | Title | Source | Details | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Schug, Albert | Die Kunst unseres Jahrhunderts | Naumann & Göbel, Cologne, 1992, pp. 153, 212, 296 | Article | |
| 2001 | Schumacher, Rogier | Karel Appel: Pastorale Chiaroscuro | Bulletin Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam | # 3, 2001 | Article |
| 2002 | Schumacher, Rogier | Karel Appel, z.t., 1970 | Beelden in Rotterdam | Uitgeverij 010, Rotterdam, 2002, pp. 124-125 |
Article |
| 2001 | Schweighöfer, Kerstin | Der Maler, der die Leinwand stürmte | ART das Kunstmagazin | # 4 (April 2001) | Article |
| 2021 | Seligmann, Nadine | Mangeur d'annonces: Between a Reveling in Materials and Painting | Karel Appel. Collages 1957-1968, published by Jahn und Jahn, Munich |
Monograph | |
| 1991 | Serra, Catalina | Karel Appel Pintor | El Pais | September 27, 1991 | Article |
| 2015 | Smith, Roberta | Cobra Artists Worked With a Passionate Style to Match Their Name | New York Times | October 8, 2015 | Article |
| 1991 | Spiegel, Olga | Karel Appel entre lo grotesco y lo ludico | La Vanguardia | September 22, 1991 | Article |
| 1991 | Spiegel, Olga | Entrevista a Karel Appel, pintor | La Vanguardia | (interview) September 27, 1991 | Article |
| 1983 | Stabenow, Cornelia | Karel Appel: das Farbtier | die Kunst | # 5 (May 1983) | Article |
| 1963 | Staber, Margrit | Die «Nudes» von Karel Appel | Art International | VII, # 8, October 25, 1963, pp. 88-89 | Article |
| 1995 | Steiner, Bertram Karl | Geschöpft aus der Ursuppe der Avantgarde | Kärntner Tageszeitung | November 29, 1995 | Article |
| 2001 | Steininger, Florian | Karel Appel: Der Machtwille der Planeten | exh. cat. Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 2001 |
Catalogue | |
| 2013 | Stokvis, Willemijn | Karel Appel. I do not paint, I hit! | exh. cat. Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark, 2013 |
Catalogue | |
| 2001 | Stokvis, Willemijn | COBRA. De weg naar spontaniteit | COBRA. De weg naar spontaniteit, V + K Publishing, Blaricum, 2001 | Miscellanious | |
| 1995 | Stokvis, Willemijn | De taal van Cobra en haar bronnen: uit de museumcollectie Van Stuijvenberg | coll. cat. Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, 1995 |
Catalogue | |
| 2008 | Stokvis, Willemijn | Cobra 1948 - 1951. Terug naar de bronnen van kunst en leven | Waanders, Zwolle, 2008 | Miscellanious | |
| 1986 | Stokvis, Willemijn | De Nederlanse bijdrage aan de Cobra-beweging en vervanten in schilder- en beeledhouwkunst | De Nederlandse identiteit in de kunst na 1945, Stedelijk Museum & Meulenhoff/Landshoff, Amsterdam, 1986, pp. 18-61 | Article | |
| 1984 | Stokvis, Willemijn (ed.) | De doorbraak van de moderne kunst in Nederland, 1945 - 1951 | Meulenhoff/Landshoff, Amsterdam 1984 | Miscellanious | |
| 1998 | Stoullig, Claire | Appel: Natural Phenomenon | exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Paris, 1998 |
Catalogue | |
| 1953 | Sweeney, James Johnson | Younger European painters | exh. cat. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1953 |
Catalogue | |
| 1956 | Tapié, Michel | Esthétique en devenir | Dau al set | Barcelona, 1956 | Article |
| 1952 | Tapié, Michel | Un Art Autre | Gabriel-Giraud et Fils | Paris, 1952 |
Miscellanious |
| 1954 | Tapié, Michel | Appel | exh. cat. Studio Paul Fachetti, Paris, 1954 |
Catalogue | |
| 1954 | Tapié, Michel | Karel Appel: First American Exhibition | with text by Michel Tapié (reprint from exh. cat. Studio Paul Fachetti, 1954), exh. cat. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1954 |
Catalogue | |
| 1954 | Tapié, Michel | Devenir d’un art autre | United States Lines | Paris Review (June 1954) | Article |
| 1955 | Tapié, Michel | Karel Appel | with poems by Emmanuel Looten, Hugo Claus, exh. cat. Galerie Rive Droite, Paris & Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1955 |
Catalogue | |
| 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 | |
| 1992 | Thorn-Petit, Liliane | Karel Appel | (excerpt from interview for RTL Television, Luxembourg), Portraits d’artistes, Editions Serpenoise, Metz, 1992 | Article | |
| 1959 | Tillich, Paul | New images of man | with prefatory note by Peter Selz and text by Paul Tillich, exh. cat. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959 |
Catalogue | |
| 1956 | Tominaga, S | An Artistic Assertion on Karel Appel | Mizue. A monthly review of fine arts | # 616 (November 1956), pp. 3-7 |
Article |
| 1979 | Towarnicki, Frédéric de | Aux Etats-Unis 1977-79 | (interview), 1979 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1984 | Towarnicki, Frederic de | La dimensione del sentimento | Tema Celeste | (interview), # 4 (October 1984), p. 7 | Article |
| 1984 | Towarnicki, Frederic de | Crime a New York | (interview), 1984 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1981 | Towarnicki, Frederic de | Fenêtres | (interview), 1981 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1977 | Towarnicki, Frédéric de | Appel, l'Anti-Robot | Connaissance des Arts | (interview), Paris, 1977 |
Article |
| 1979 | Towarnicki, Frédéric de | Street Art, chapter 1 & 2 | (interview), 1979 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1979 | Towarnicki, Frédéric de | On painting | (interview), 1979 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 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 | |
| 1948 | Troelstra, Jelle | Over Schilderkunst | radio broadcast for VARA, Hilversum | Artistieke Staalkaart, March 12, 1949 |
Miscellanious |
| 2000 | Turner, Jonathan | Karel Appel: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam | ARTnews | (review) (November 2000), p. 218 | Article |
| 1984 | Tuyl, Gijs van | The comeback of an authentic painter | Metropolis M | # 4 (September - October 1984) | Article |
| 1984 | Tuyl, Gijs van | The New Reality of Karel Appel | Dutch Art and Architecture Today | December 16, 1984 | Article |
| 1996 | Vagheggi, Paolo | Il mio colore è tutto un jazz | La Repubblica | May 27, 1996 | Article |
| 1998 | Vagheggi, Paolo | Tutti i nemici del CoBrA | La Repubblica | (interview), December 7, 1998 | Article |
| 1987 | Verdet, André | Karel Appel à Nice | Cimaise | # 190, (September - October 1987) | 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 |
| 1988 | Verdet, André | Des lumières et des vibrations | New Art International | (interview), # 1/2 (May - June 1988) | Article |
| 1987 | Verhofstad, Juliette | Appelbar, 1951 | Op het tweede gezicht | a bulletin published by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, March 1987, pp. 203-206 | Article |
| 1990 | Versteeg, Coos | Karel Appel, vechter tegen de slaap | Haagsche Courant | December 8, 1990 | Article |