Close Together
"Close Together" by Karel Appel is a vibrant wood multiple hand-painted in bold, expressive colors, reflecting the artist's signature CoBrA movement style. Appel's energetic brushwork and vivid palette bring the sculptural medium to life, infusing the piece with a raw, childlike intensity. The tactile quality of the painted wood adds a dynamic, three-dimensional presence to his characteristically spontaneous and emotive artistic language.
- Medium
- Wood multiple hand-painted in colors.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Evening & Day Editions
October 26, 2016
Artists in conversation
Asger Jorn
Danish · b. 1914
As a founding member of the CoBrA movement alongside Appel, Jorn employed the same raw expressive brushwork, vivid color palettes, and childlike figurative intensity seen in Close Together, often working across both painting and sculptural objects.
Jean Dubuffet
French · b. 1901
Dubuffet similarly embraced bold hand painted surfaces on three dimensional sculptural forms, using rough tactile materials and spontaneous gestural marks with vivid colors to evoke primitive and childlike emotional energy.
Constant Nieuwenhuys
Dutch · b. 1920
As a fellow CoBrA movement co founder, Constant shared Appel's commitment to energetic expressive figuration, bold saturated color, and the fusion of painterly gesture with constructed sculptural objects rooted in mid century avant garde sensibilities.
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