Head and Fish

Karel Appel Dutch, 1921-2006
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About the Artwork

Head and Fish

1954

Karel Appel

1921-2006

Dutch

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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

Restricted

Markings

Signed, lower right: 54 | k. Appel

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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Published References

Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 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. New York, 1973, pp. 32-22 (ill.).

Cobra and Contrasts. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1974, p. 41 (ill. no. 6).

Bulletin of the DIA 58, no. 4 (1980): p. 179 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Karel Appel, Head and Fish, 1954, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lydia Winston Malbin, 79.175.

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