Selected bibliography
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| 2013 | Stokvis, Willemijn | Karel Appel. I do not paint, I hit! | exh. cat. Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark, 2013 |
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| 1982 | Beeren, Wim | Het Nieuwe Werk van Karel Appel 1979 – 1981 | exh. cat. Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1982 |
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| 1982 | Béraud, Gilles & Besson, Christian & Dotremont, Christian & Lecombre, Sylvain | CoBrA, 1948-1951 | exh. cat. Museé d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris & Maison de la Culture, Chalon-sur-Saône, France & Museé des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France |
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| 1960 | Sawyer, Kenneth B. | Karel Appel: Paintings 1955–1960 and Recent Gouaches | exh. cat. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1960 |
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| 1991 | Fuchs, Rudi | Karel Appel: Black & White Paintings | exh. cat. Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, 1991 |
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| 1987 | Kuspit, Donald | Karel Appel: Recent Paintings and Sculpture | exh. cat. Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, 1987 |
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| 1986 | Hunter, Sam | Karel Appel: Recent Paintings | exh. cat. Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, 1986 |
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| 1998 | Kaiser, Franz-W. & Rohsmann, Arnulf | Karel Appel. Thinking Spaces | exh. cat. Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt, Austria, 1998 |
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| 1985 | Pincus-Witten, Robert | Karel Appel: CoBrA Paintings 1948-1951 | exh. cat. James Goodman Gallery, New York, 1985 |
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| 1963 | Schierbeek, Bert | Appel Nudes | exh. cat. Gimpel and Hanover Galerie Zürich, 1963 & Galerie Europe, Paris & Gimpel Fils, London & Martha Jackson Gallery, New York |
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| 2011 | Kaiser, Franz-W. & Wijnia, Lieke | Parijs. Stad van de moderne kunst | exh. cat. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, 2011 |
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| 2016 | Kaiser, Franz-W. & Fuchs, Rudi & Ottmann, Klaus | Karel Appel Retrospectief / Karel Appel Retrospective | exh. cat. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 2016 |
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| 2008 | Cerritelli, Claudio | Karel Appel: Opere 1990–2002 | exh. cat. Galleria Arte 92, Milan, 2008 |
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| 2005 | Fuchs, Rudi | Karel Appel. Opere 1991 – 2002 | exh. cat. Galleria Arte 92, Milan, 2005 |
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| 1995 | Fuchs, Rudi & Rohsmann, Arnulf & Zigaina, Guiseppe | Karel Appel: Ich bin die Erde der alles entspringt | exh. cat. Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria & Kärntner Landesgalerie Klagenfurt, Austria, 1995 & Moderna Galerija Ljubljana |
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| 2001 | Steininger, Florian | Karel Appel: Der Machtwille der Planeten | exh. cat. Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 2001 |
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| 1957 | Moreni, Mattia | Appel | exh. cat. Galerie Stadler, Paris, 1957 |
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| 1960 | Looten, Emmanuel | Karel Appel | exh. cat. Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, 1960 |
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| 1956 | Looten, Emmanuel | Karel Appel: Portraits | exh. cat. Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, 1956 |
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| 1981 | Reinhartz-Tergau, Elisabeth | Karel Appel: tentoonstelling t.g.v. zijn 60-ste verjaardag, | exh. cat. Galerie Nova Spectra, The Hague, 1981 |
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| 1976 | Redeker, Hans | Karel Appel: schilderijen, gouaches, acryls, keramische beelden 1950–1975 | exh. cat. Galerie Nova Spectra, The Hague, 1976 |
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| 1995 | Gachnang, Johannes | Karel Appel, Toskanischer Horizont | exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Zürich, 1995 |
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| 2001 | Ragon, Michel | Karel Appel: Sag zum Abschied leise Servus | exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Paris, 2001 |
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| 1998 | Stoullig, Claire | Appel: Natural Phenomenon | exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Paris, 1998 |
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| 1996 | Fuchs, Rudi | Appel. Figures et paysages | exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Paris, 1996 |
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| 1958 | Ragon, Michel | Appel: Gouaches et céramiques | exh. cat. Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, 1958 |
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| 1959 | Neuburg, Hans | Karel Appel | exh. cat. Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zürich, 1959 |
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| 1988 | Ragon, Michel | Karel Appel | exh. cat. Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1988 |
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| 1958 | Sandberg, Willem | Karel Appel | exh. cat. Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne, 1958 |
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| 2023 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | Karel Appel: Four Exhibitions | exh. cat. four exhibitions: Paris / New York; Encounter in Spring and what follows; Object Paintings; Late Nudes, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin / London, 2023 |
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| 1978 | Dypreau, Jean | Karel Appel. Peintures et sculptures | exh. cat. Fondation Chateau de Jau, Cases-de-Pène, France, 1978 |
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| 2016 | Kaiser, Franz-W. & Lotz, Rouven | Karel Appel. Der abstrakte Blick | exh. cat. Emil Schumacher Museum Hagen, Germany, 2016 |
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| 2015 | Gingeras, Alison & Godet, Marie & Laugharn, Fiona | The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up. Cobra & Its Legacy | exh. cat. Blum & Poe, New York, 2015 |
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| 2014 | Gingeras, Alison | Karel Appel | exh. cat. Blum & Poe, New York, 2014 |
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| 1954 | Doelman, Cornelis | Olanda | exh. cat. Biennale di Venezia XXVII, 1954 |
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| 1999 | Hovdenakk, Per & Kvaran, Gunnar B. | Toys from the Attic | exh. cat. Bergen Museum of Art, Norway, 1999 |
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| 1998 | Bonito Oliva, Achille | Karel Appel | exh. cat. Atelier del Bosco di Villa Medici, Rome, 1998 |
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| 1964 | Read, Herbert | Appel | exh. cat. American Art Gallery, Copenhagen |
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| 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” |
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| 2021 | Fuchs, Rudi | Distance Closer / Verte naderbij | exh. cat. Horizon of Tuscany, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, 2021 |
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| 2019 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | Karel Appel dans la France glorieuse | exh. cat. Figures et paysages, Almine Rech, Paris, 2019 |
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| 2006 | Sailer, John | Karel Appel: Last Paintings | exh. cat Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 2006 |
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| 1982 | Berger, Peter & Vinkenoog, Simon & Vrijman, Jan | Ecrits sur Karel Appel | Esteban, Claude & Delorme, Michel (ed.), with texts by Peter Berger (reprint from 1977), Simon Vinkenoog (reprint from 1963), Jan Vrijman (reprint from 1962), Éditions Galilée, Paris, 1982 |
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| 1950 | Dotremont, Christian | Appel | Bibliothèque de CoBrA, series «d'Arts Plastiques» | Ejnar Munksgaard, Copenhagen (1950) |
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| 1949 | Cobra: organe du front international des artistes expérimentaux d'avant-garde, # 4 | edition: Experimentele Groep in Holland, used as exh. cat. for Exposition Internationale d’Art Expérimental, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1949 |
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| 1953 | Fitzsimmons, James | New York: A Glittering Constellation. Introducing 33 Younger European Painters | ART Digest | December 1, 1953, pp. 7-8; 25-26 |
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| 1995 | Stokvis, Willemijn | De taal van Cobra en haar bronnen: uit de museumcollectie Van Stuijvenberg | coll. cat. Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, 1995 |
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| 1950 | Dotremont, Christian | L’affaire Appel | Le petit cobra, # 3 | Brussels (spring 1950) |
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| 1948 | Troelstra, Jelle | Over Schilderkunst | radio broadcast for VARA, Hilversum | Artistieke Staalkaart, March 12, 1949 |
Miscellanious |
| 2021 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | Karel Appel: Rencontre au Printemps | collection cat. UNESCO, Art Collection, selected works/ UNESCO, Collection d’Art, Sélection d’oeuvres, UNESCO, Paris, 2021, pp. 283-284 |
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