Selected bibliography
| Year | Author | Title Sort ascending | Source | Details | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Ellenbroek, Willem | De handen van Appel | de Volkskrant magazine | # 54, September 9, 2000 | Article |
| 1984 | Stokvis, Willemijn (ed.) | De doorbraak van de moderne kunst in Nederland, 1945 - 1951 | Meulenhoff/Landshoff, Amsterdam 1984 | Miscellanious | |
| 2010 | Wesseling, Janneke | De Appelwand in het Stedelijk Museum lijkt niet meer geschilderd | NRC Handelsblad | CS en Boeken, September 10, 2010, p. 2 | Article |
| 1987 | Bax, Marty | De Appelbar | Jong Holland | vol. 3, # 3 (September 1987) pp. 4-13 | Article |
| 1948 | Lucebert | Dagwerk van Dionysos, voor Karel Appel | Poem | 1948 (unpublished) |
Miscellanious |
| 1999 | Lucebert | Dagwerk van Dionysos | (reprint from 1948), RASTER, # 88 (1999), p. 141 | Article | |
| 1968 | Dull, Ben | Daden en woorden van Karel Appel | Het Parool | (interview), November 15, 1968 |
Article |
| 1984 | Towarnicki, Frederic de | Crime a New York | (interview), 1984 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1994 | Melikian, Souren | Contemporary Arts: Back to 1980s? | International Herald Tribune | October 29-30, 1994, p. 10 | Article |
| 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 |
Catalogue | ||
| 2001 | Stokvis, Willemijn | COBRA. De weg naar spontaniteit | COBRA. De weg naar spontaniteit, V + K Publishing, Blaricum, 2001 | Miscellanious | |
| 1951 | Cobra, Revue international de l’art experimental | # 10 (autumn 1951), used as exh. cat. for IIe Exposition |
Catalogue | ||
| 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 |
Catalogue | |
| 1968 | Ashton, Dore | Cobra in Context | Arts magazine | (February 1968), pp. 106-109 |
Article |
| 2015 | Smith, Roberta | Cobra Artists Worked With a Passionate Style to Match Their Name | New York Times | October 8, 2015 | Article |
| 1974 | Sandberg, Willem | CoBrA and Contrasts, The Winston-Malbin Collection | with text by Willem Sandberg, exh. cat. The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1974 |
Catalogue | |
| 2008 | Stokvis, Willemijn | Cobra 1948 - 1951. Terug naar de bronnen van kunst en leven | Waanders, Zwolle, 2008 | Miscellanious | |
| 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 | |
| 1994 | Miller, Richard | Christian Karel Appel | Cobra, Nouvelles Editions Francaises, Paris, 1994, pp. 134-136 | Article | |
| 2021 | Fuchs, Rudi | By Karel Appel, a Work in Fragments | exh. cat. Karel Appel: Life-Size and larger, Eenwerk Gallery, Amsterdam, 2021 |
Catalogue | |
| 1979 | Towarnicki, Frédéric de | Aux Etats-Unis 1977-79 | (interview), 1979 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1985 | Dank, Ralf | Aus dem Chaos wächst das Bild | Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger | (interview), # 229/20, October 3, 1985, p. 20 | Article |
| 1985 | Kuspit, Donald | Atomic Weather: Karel Appel | Art in America | # 4 (April 1985), pp. 160-163 | Article |
| 1987 | Ratcliff, Carter | Artist's Dialogue: Karel Appel -Optimism and Apocalypse- | Architectural Digest | (April 1987), p. 44 | 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 | |
| 1956 | Coates, R.M | Art Galleries: Exhibition at Jackson Gallery | The New Yorker | May 5, 1956 | Article |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 1965 | Hoffmann, Hans | Appelboom in Vondelpark | Panorama | year 52, # 14, April 3, 1965, pp. 34-5 | Article |
| 1987 | Verhofstad, Juliette | Appelbar, 1951 | Op het tweede gezicht | a bulletin published by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, March 1987, pp. 203-206 | Article |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 1998 | Stoullig, Claire | Appel: Natural Phenomenon | exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Paris, 1998 |
Catalogue | |
| 1993 | Houts, Cathérine van | Appel: ik twijfel tot de laatste lik | Het Parool | February 16, 1993 | Article |
| 1958 | Ragon, Michel | Appel: Gouaches et céramiques | exh. cat. Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, 1958 |
Catalogue | |
| 1996 | Fuchs, Rudi | Appel. Figures et paysages | exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Paris, 1996 |
Catalogue | |
| 1961 | Lupasco, Stéphane | Appel, peintre de la vie | XXième Siècle | vol. 23, # 17 (December 1961) | 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 |
| 1977 | Towarnicki, Frédéric de | Appel, l'Anti-Robot | Connaissance des Arts | (interview), Paris, 1977 |
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 | |
| 1982 | Houts, Cathérine van | Appel verkent 't sentiment | Het Parool | January 22, 1982 | Article |
| 1955 | Vrijman, Jan | Appel rolt ver van de stam: Portret van Karel Appel | Vrij Nederland | January 29, 1955, p. 3 |
Article |
| 1964 | Citroen, Paul | Appel or Citroen | Delta. A Review of Arts Life and Thought in the Netherlands | # 1 (spring 1964), pp. 13-23 |
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 | |
| 1984 | Jamie, Rasaad | Appel Now | Artscribe | (interview), # 45 (February - April 1984), pp. 41-47 | Article |
| 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 | |
| 2021 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | Appel after CoBrA: Collages 1957-1968 | Karel Appel. Collages 1957-1968, published by Jahn und Jahn, Munich |
Monograph | |
| 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 | ||
| 1954 | Tapié, Michel | Appel | exh. cat. Studio Paul Fachetti, Paris, 1954 |
Catalogue | |
| 1957 | Moreni, Mattia | Appel | exh. cat. Galerie Stadler, Paris, 1957 |
Catalogue |