
Reclining Nude
Karel Appel's oil painting depicting a reclining nude figure. The work showcases his characteristic bold brushwork and vibrant palette.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Online | New York
July 14, 2021
Estimate: $40,000 to $60,000
Lot 22
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Asger Jorn
Danish · b. 1914

As a founding member of the CoBrA movement alongside Appel, Jorn created figurative works with similarly explosive brushwork, raw expressionist energy, and intensely vibrant color application that distorts the human form in comparable ways.

Jean Dubuffet
French · b. 1901

Dubuffet shared Appel's commitment to raw, gestural figuration and thick impasto oil painting, frequently depicting the human figure with bold irreverent strokes that reject academic idealization in favor of primal expressive force.

Willem de Kooning
Dutch American · b. 1904

De Kooning's celebrated series of reclining and standing female figures executed in oil on canvas share the same frenetic brushwork, vibrant palette, and tension between figuration and abstraction that defines Appel's approach to the nude.
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