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Karel Appel

1921–2006

Untitled 1960
© Karel Appel Foundation / DACS 2026
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Heads in a Colourful Landscape

Karel Appel
1965
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Karel Appel
1975–6
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Untitled

Karel Appel
1960
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Amorous Dance

Karel Appel
1955
Childlike figures assembled from painted wooden blocks jut from a yellow board, their red, blue, green and white faces staring with round eyes and bared teeth

Questioning Children

Karel Appel
1949

People, Birds and Sun

Karel Appel
1954
Child-like figures painted in thick strokes on a black ground: a red-faced creature with green ears and yellow tie, an orange hooded figure, a green-faced king and a horse-like animal, all with spindly white limbs

Hip, Hip, Hoorah!

Karel Appel
1949
On display at Tate Modern part of In the Studio
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