Pastorale Chiaroscuro

by Johannes Gachnang, Jean Frémon, Karel Appel

The Dutch born artist Karel Appel was unquestionably one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, helping to define one of its chief "If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age," he once famously declared. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum shows that he was still going strong in the last decade of his life, presenting a selection of the artist's paintings, sculptures and works on paper from his final phase.

144 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 2001