Karel APPEL - Kool Luke singing hands, 1978 - Hand signed silkscreen

Karel Appel : (1921-2006), is a dutch painter and sculptor, cofounder of the group CoBrA. He studied at the Académie royale des beaux-arts in Amsterdam between 1940 and 1943, and started exhibiting in 1946. He was influenced by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Jean Dubuffet. He joined the Nederlandse Experimentele Groep, and then the CoBrA movement in 1948, with Corneille, Constant, Asger Jorn, Jan Nieuwenhuys and Christian Dotremont. In 1950, he went to Paris, and developed an international reputation, traveling to Mexico, USA, Yougoslavia and Brasil. His first exhibition took place in 1946 in Groningue in Netherlands. Then at the Palais des Beaux-arts de Bruxelles (1953), the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York (1954), the Galerie Rive Droite in Paris (1955-1956), in 1968 at the Centre d'art contemporain de Paris, at the Centraal Museum (Retrospective), Utrecht, Netherlands (1970), the musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (1972), the New York Cultural Center (1973), the Wildenstein Gallery (London), the Fuji Television Gallery (Tokyo) 1975, the Museo de Arte Moderno (retrospective), Mexico (1977), the Paris Art Center (1988), the National Museum of Art, Osaka, the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (1989), the Fundacion Juan Miró, Barcelona (1990), the National Museum of Comtemporary Art, Seoul (1994), the galerie Lelong, Paris (2003, 2009, 2011), and at the Cobra Museum, Amstelveen (2005). He died in 2006 and was burried at the Père-Lachaise cemetery.

Walker Art Center (The USA)
Hood Museum of Art (The USA)
MacVal (France)
Das Museum Folkwang (Germany)
FRAC Poitou-Charente (France)
FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (France)
Neuberger Museum of art (The USA)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (The USA)
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal)
Musée Cantini (France)
Musée d'art moderne Ceret (France)
Collection Sandra Alvarez de Toledo (France)
MOLAA (Museum of Latin American Art) (The USA)
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Germany)
Museum Abteiberg (Germany)
The Thyssen Bornemisza Collection (Spain)
The Gilbert Brownstone Foundation (France)
RISD (Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art) (The USA)
Les Abattoirs - FRAC Midi Pyrénées (France)
Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum (Japan)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
MALBA - Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
FRAC Picardie (France)
Carnegie Museum of art (The USA)
Collection Szöllösi-Nagy-Nemes (France)
Artothèque, Pessac (France)
Artothèque du Limousin + FACLIM (France)
Artium (Spain)
MAMbo (Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna) (Italy)
National Galleries of Scotland (United Kingdom)
Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg (France)
Fundación Antonio Pérez. Diputación de Cuenca (Spain)
Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne (France)
ACAPA (Artothèque Angoulême) (France)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) (Spain)
Randers Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
Horsens Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
MUSMA Museo della Scultura Contemporanea Matera (Italy)
Palm Springs Art Museum (The USA)
The Weatherspoon Art Museum (The USA)
Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje (FYROM)
Artothèque de Brest (France)
Musée des Beaux Arts d'Alger (Algeria)
Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Italy)
The Knoll Museum (The USA)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (The USA)
Centre national des arts plastiques (France)
Artothèque, Angers (France)
Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection (The USA)
Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (Uruguay)
Musée des Beaux arts de Lyon (France)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York (The USA)
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (The USA)
Avampato Discovery Museum (The USA)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
The Wadsworth Atheneum (The USA)
Ackland Art Museum (The USA)
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (The USA)
The Art Institute of Chicago (The USA)
Des Moines Art Center (The USA)
Saint Louis Museum of Art (The USA)
Museo Rayo (Colombia)
Artothèque, Poitiers (France)
Nasher Museum of art at Duke university (The USA)
Utah Museum of Fine Art (The USA)
The Modern Museum in Sweden - Moderna Museet (Sweden)
Brauer Museum of Art - Valparaiso University (The USA)
Museo José Luis Cuevas (México)
Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia (Colombia)
PAMM (Perez Art Museum Miami) (The USA)
Haggerty Museum at Marquette University (The USA)
Museum Ludwig (Köln) (Germany)
Musée de Reims (France)
Auckland Art Gallery (Australia)
Artothèque, Besançon (France)
Museo Botero (Colombia)
Collection Laurent Dumas (Emerige) (France)
Cantellani Art Museum (The USA)
Artothèque, Nantes (France)