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Karel Appel

Appel

Amsterdam. Stedelijk Museum. 1961
Exhibition catalogue for Karel Appel at the Stedelijk Museum, 1961. The exhibition also travelled by the Gemeentesmuseum Den Haag later the same year.

With a text (printed in Dutch) by Lucebert, 'appel's verflichaam leeft', and a text by Bert Schierbeek. An extensive biography of the artist is printed at the rear. Sheet with a list of works loose within.

Typically elegant catalogue designed by Wim Crouwel, who was solely responsible for the Stedelijk's graphic output from the early 1960s.
4to. (270 x 200 mm). Illustrated throughout in both colour and black and white on a variety of paper stocks, with some coloured lithographic images and glassine fold-out pages. Original publisher's printed wrappers.
#47708

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