Bird - The Phoebus Foundation
Abstract bird painted with bold lines and colours, by Karel Appel, cover of the book 'Bird'.

Hannibal Books 2019 XIV

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In this Phoebus Focus restorer Naomi Meulemans analyses the work of CoBrA artist Karel Appel. Like no one else, she can extract secrets from the materiality of the paint. The author dissects Appel’s painting layer after layer. The result is somewhat sobering. Were the CoBrA artists as ‘free’ as they wanted to believe themselves?

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