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"I'd really like to have the eye of an animal who'd taken it into its head to paint the human world." Karel Appel 1977
The COBRA group of which Appel was a member after the second World War rejected the academic tenets of the School of Paris in favor of a more destructive, primal aesthetic that was informed by the art of children and the art of the insane, as well as the "action painters" of Abstract Expressionism. In particular, Appel's works are characterized by a restless vitality and what he called 'kinetic thought' -the spontaneity of movement and creativity.
"Appel puts on a series of fantastic masks, reminding us of the constantly shifting borderline between the hilarious and the serious. The world of play is inseparable from the world of affairs, and Appel's world of play erases the border between child and adult" (M. McLuhan, Karel Appel: Works on Paper, New York, 1980, p. 9).
The human form offers Appel a classical subject to reinterpret through bold gestural strokes and thick impasto. Enjoy the Natural Wonder (lot 11) renews and monumentalizes the form of the female nude, filling the canvas like a landscape; a landscape of motion and color on an epic scale.
Anthony Quinn (1915-2001), the acclaimed Academy Award winning actor was a passionate collector and artist. His love for the visual arts developed at the precocious age of nine when he began sculpting and making drawings of the various celebrities he met at the film studio at which he worked. After winning a high school architectural competition, he studied with Frank Lloyd Wright, an encounter which broadened his appreciation and knowledge of art. Over the course of his lifetime, Quinn amassed an impressive collection of twentieth century art, including works by Karel Appel, Alexander Archipenko, Henry Moore and Auguste Rodin.
The COBRA group of which Appel was a member after the second World War rejected the academic tenets of the School of Paris in favor of a more destructive, primal aesthetic that was informed by the art of children and the art of the insane, as well as the "action painters" of Abstract Expressionism. In particular, Appel's works are characterized by a restless vitality and what he called 'kinetic thought' -the spontaneity of movement and creativity.
"Appel puts on a series of fantastic masks, reminding us of the constantly shifting borderline between the hilarious and the serious. The world of play is inseparable from the world of affairs, and Appel's world of play erases the border between child and adult" (M. McLuhan, Karel Appel: Works on Paper, New York, 1980, p. 9).
The human form offers Appel a classical subject to reinterpret through bold gestural strokes and thick impasto. Enjoy the Natural Wonder (lot 11) renews and monumentalizes the form of the female nude, filling the canvas like a landscape; a landscape of motion and color on an epic scale.
Anthony Quinn (1915-2001), the acclaimed Academy Award winning actor was a passionate collector and artist. His love for the visual arts developed at the precocious age of nine when he began sculpting and making drawings of the various celebrities he met at the film studio at which he worked. After winning a high school architectural competition, he studied with Frank Lloyd Wright, an encounter which broadened his appreciation and knowledge of art. Over the course of his lifetime, Quinn amassed an impressive collection of twentieth century art, including works by Karel Appel, Alexander Archipenko, Henry Moore and Auguste Rodin.