Karel Appel BIG HEAD COMING DOWN Signed Original Lithograph

Karel Appel
big head coming down
from the night sky as it is forever – 1979
Print – Lithograph on Arches Archival Paper   22” x 30”
Edition: Signed in white pencil and marked 10/175

Unframed

Karel Appel is one of the founding members of the CoBrA movement in the 1950s. Later Appel emerged as one of the most important modern artists of the 20th century for his use of color. Appel is held in the collections of innumerable museums worldwide.

“My paint tube is like a rocket which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot forsee; it is a surprise. Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound–like the roar coming from the lion’s breast.”