Juliette Evezard is a French art historian, exhibition curator and writer specializing on the 1950s and 1960s. She defended her PhD thesis on Michel Tapié, the influential Parisian art critic, impresario and art adviser of the 1950s, who had been crucial for Karel Appel’s early international breakthrough, at the University of Paris-Ouest-Nanterre la Défense in January 2015 (published in 2023 by the Presses du Réel as: “Un Art Autre” – Le rêve de Michel Tapié). The Karel Appel Foundation has subsidized her post-Doc position as a researcher attached to the department Étude du Contemporain en Littérature, Langues, Arts of the Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne. In this position, she has done archival research into Karel Appel’s life and career in France (1950-1976), which will be published in the near future.

The Elusive Karel Appel

Juliette Evezard could not physically attend the symposium. She sent her presentation including her spoken commentary instead, through which she shared the surprising results of her research on Appel’s reception during his first ten years in Paris as well as on his early breakthrough in New York.

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