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A less-expensive alternative to an April or August trip, September in Paris is more pleasant than reputed. Clear skies and crisp air are actually more common in September than in…

Paris Art Galerie Lelong presents Karel Appel from September 4 till October 10, 2009. After the exposition of fourteen very large nudes in the Albertina in Vienna in January 2008 and the exhibition Appe lJazz the Cobra Museum in Amsterdam, Galerie Lelong presents, in collaboration with the Appel Foundation, a group of works painted in 2000 and 2001.

Paris Art Karel Appel

These large format paintings play very freely with classic themes – landscapes, still lives and human figures. The energy that runs through these paintings is always associated with a very keen sense of construction. The touch is firm, full, and the sudden presence of a pair of boots, trivial and majestic at once, of course, is somewhat reminiscent of his compatriot Vincent van Gogh.

Karel Appel (Amsterdam 1921 – Zürich 2006) was one of the leading painters in the second half of the twentieth century and his name is attached to the Cobra movement, which was a source of energy.

Paris Art Galerie Larock Granoff, 13 Quai de Conti in Paris, presents from September 9, ceramics made by Karel Appel in 1997 in the workshops of the Galerie Lelong in collaboration with Hans Spinner.

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Varnishing day (vernissage): September 3 from 6pm.

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