About the Artwork
Head and Fish
1954
Karel Appel
1921-2006
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 35 × 45 inches (88.9 × 114.3 cm) Framed: 37 × 47 7/16 × 1 7/16 inches (94 × 120.5 × 3.7 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Gift of Lydia Winston Malbin
79.175
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Markings
Signed, lower right: 54 | k. Appel
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Provenance
the artist, Karel Appel
1955, Winston Collection
collection of Lydia Winston Malbin
1979-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston. DIA, 1957, pp. 33-34 (ill. no. 3).
"Collecting Modern Art." The Detroit Free Press, March 3, 1963.
Futurism: A Modern Focus. The Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston Collection. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, 1973, pp. 32-22 (ill.).
Cobra and Contrasts. DIA, September 25-November 17, 1974, p. 41 (ill. no. 6).
Bulletin of the DIA 58, no. 4 (1980): p. 179 (ill.).
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Karel Appel, Head and Fish, 1954, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lydia Winston Malbin, 79.175.
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