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Portrait de Kafka
Details
Karel Appel (b. 1921)
Portrait de Kafka
signed 'Appel' (lower right); titled and dated 'Study of a Portrait of Franz Kafka, 1983' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
75¼ x 75¼in. (191 x 191cm.)
Painted in 1983
Portrait de Kafka
signed 'Appel' (lower right); titled and dated 'Study of a Portrait of Franz Kafka, 1983' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
75¼ x 75¼in. (191 x 191cm.)
Painted in 1983
Provenance
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris.
Anon. sale, Francis Briest Paris, 30 November 1991, lot 21.
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner.
Anon. sale, Francis Briest Paris, 30 November 1991, lot 21.
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Revue Tema Celeste 4, October 1984, (illustrated on the cover).
Exhibited
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Le Siècle de Kafka, June-October 1984.
Paris, Galerie de France, Karel Appel-Portraits, June-July 1988.
Nice, Musée d'art Moderne et d'art Contemporain, Le Portrait dans l'art Contemporain, July-September 1992.
Paris, Galerie de France, Karel Appel-Portraits, June-July 1988.
Nice, Musée d'art Moderne et d'art Contemporain, Le Portrait dans l'art Contemporain, July-September 1992.
Special notice
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