Karel Appel (1921-2006)

Little big boy, 1981 Huile sur toile. Signée et datée en bas à gauche. Titrée au dos. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower left. Titled on the reverse. H_224 cm L_195 cm Provenance: - atelier de l'artiste - Galerie Guy Pieters, Knokke - collection privée "My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I cannot foresee, it is a surprise. Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound, like the roar coming from the lion's breast. To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life. It is a scream; it is a night; it is like a child; it is a tiger behind bars."