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Karel Appel
Black Mountains, 1961-2
9-Color Lithograph on Arches Paper with deckled edges. Pencil signed and numbered. Bears embossed blind stamp of L'Oeuvre Gravee. Bears original Authentication stamp verso
30 1/2 × 22 in
77.5 × 55.9 cm
Edition 14/125
This dazzling early 1960s lithograph on Arches paper by renowned Amsterdam-born CoBrA artist bears the blind stamp of the publisher, along with the original publishers' authentication label with the unique catalogue number and tirage on the verso. CoBrA was a European avant-garde movement active from 1948 to 1951. The name was coined in 1948 by Christian Dotremont from the initials of the members' home cities: Copenhagen (Co), Brussels (Br), Amsterdam (A). According to Wiki, "The European artists were different from their American counterparts (the Abstract Expressionists) in that they preferred the process over the product and introduced primitive, mythical, and folkloric elements along with a decorative input from their children and graffiti. One of the new approaches that united the COBRA artists was their unrestrained use of strong colors, along with violent handwritings and figuration which can be either frightening or humorous. Their art was alive with subhuman figures in order to mirror the terror and weakness of our time unlike the dehumanized art of Abstraction. This spontaneous method was a rejection of Renaissance art, specialization, and ‘civilized art’; rather, they preferred ‘uncivilized’ forms of expression which created an interplay between the conscious and the unconscious instead of the Surrealist interest in the unconscious alone. The childlike in their method meant a pleasure in painting, in the materials, forms, and finally the picture itself; this aesthetic notion was called ‘desire unbound’. The Dutch Artists in particular within Cobra (Corneille, Appel, Constant) were interested in Children's art.“We Wanted to start again like a child” Karel Appel insisted..."
Condition: very good condition; handling, and gentle creasing around the margins overall and toning; otherwise a bright, strong impression
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