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Fighting Birds

Karel Appel Dutch, 1921-2006
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About the Artwork

Fighting Birds

1959

Karel Appel

1921-2006

Dutch

Unknown

Gouache on wove paper

Framed: 17 3/4 × 22 1/4 inches (45.1 × 56.5 cm)

Drawings

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Bequest of W. Hawkins Ferry

F1988.83

Restricted

Markings

Signed and dated, in pencil, lower left: appel '59

Inscribed, in red ink, verso: 7/61 Inscribed, in pencil, verso: #5306/Fighting Birds

Watermark: BFK RIVES

Provenance

estate of W. Hawkins Ferry;
1988-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Karel Appel, Fighting Birds, 1959, gouache on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of W. Hawkins Ferry, F1988.83.

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