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THBKarel Appel Painting, “The Horseman”
Lot 94
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2022-11-12 14:00:00
2022-11-12 14:00:00
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- Lot Description
Karel Appel (1921-2006)
The Horseman
1988
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
24 x 18 in / 61 x 45,7 cm
Framed: 28.75 x 22.75 in / 73 x 57,8 cm
Provenance:
Direct from the artist
Gerry Mulligan Foundation
Being sold to benefit the Gerry Mulligan Foundation
Karel Appel was a Dutch painter of turbulent, colorful, and semiabstract compositions, who was a co-founder in 1948 of the COBRA (from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam) group of northern European Expressionists. He was also noted for his sculpture and graphic works. The artists of the COBRA group, reacting against the sterility and rigidity of the Dutch De Stijl movement, assimilated the loser more spontaneous influences of folk art, children’s art, the “brut art of Jean Dubuffet, and American Action painting. Appel’s painting style is characterized by thick layering of pigment, violent bold brushwork, and a crude, reductive figuration, with the painting offered here exemplifies well. Appel’s work has been exhibited at museums around the world including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1992), Gemeetemuseum Den Haag (1990), and his first retrospective exhibit in in 1965 at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Gerry Mulligan (1927-1996) is considered by many to be the finest baritone saxophonist in jazz. Mulligan won a record 29 consecutive Down Beat Readers Poll awards. As both an arranger and a player, he was a driving force in the creation of Miles Davis’s “Birth of the Cool” nonet in the late 1940’s. Mulligan became an innovator in the establishment of jazz combos without chordal instruments, beginning in 1952 with his famous “pianoless” quartet featuring the interplay of his baritone sax with Chet Baker’s trumpeting. In the late 1950s and early 1960s Mulligan composed and arranged for, led, and soloed with the best “little big band” of that era, his Concert Jazz Band.
As neighbors in Connecticut, Gerry Mulligan and Karel Appel enjoyed a warm friendship, cemented by their shared interests and their mutual respect for the other’s art form. Many artists are influenced by the music of their time, and that was certainly the case with those of Abstract Expressionism and Jazz. Both movements, in their own way, broke away from the more traditional creative processes – sharing an energy, a freedom, and an emotional truth that seemed to change everything in their respective fields. It is therefore understandable how Gerry Mulligan and Karel Appel could have had so much in common, and why Gerry would have acquired works of art from Appel, this painting being one of them.
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