Karel AppelDutch, 1921–2006Beast
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The Museum of Modern Art
New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- 12 days ago
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
Particulars
- Accession number
- 2.1978
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- The Museum of Modern Art: the museum's own open data · fetched 12 days ago
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Meanwhile, in the life of Karel Appel
The whole life1954
Prize at the Venice Biennale
Appel won a prize at the Venice Biennale and, the same year, the International Prize for graphic art at the Ljubljana Biennial.
1954
First American show, at the Martha Jackson Gallery
Appel's first American gallery exhibition was held at the Martha Jackson Gallery. In America he also painted portraits of prominent jazz musicians, among them Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie.
1955
“Child and Beast II” in MoMA's “The New Decade”
His painting “Child and Beast II” (1951) was included in the influential Museum of Modern Art exhibition “The New Decade”, which featured twenty-two European painters and sculptors, among them newcomers such as Francis Bacon, Jean Dubuffet and Pierre Soulages.
