Karel Appel Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonné - Hardcover Art Book by Harry N. Abrams (1994) - Perfect for Collectors, Art Historians & Museum Libraries

Kuspit, Donald, and Karel Appel. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1994. 

English, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 11 1/2" x 10 1/2", 190 pp.

ISBN: 0810919451

Black cloth over board, stamped silver lettering to front and spine, light marks to front and back, otherwise, superior copy inside and out, with only the most minimal, unobtrusive wear to bindings, text-block, dust jacket and endpapers. Near Fine pictorial dust jacket, featuring Karel Appel's 1992 sculpture "The Wheelbarrow" to front, 1950 sculpture "Personage" to back, red, blue, black, and white to front and spine, black lettering to spine, light shelf wear to panels, small orange dot to back, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. [6] 190 pp., replete with 232 images with 100 full-color, poem "Mad Talk" by Karel Appel, essay "Primordial Presences: The Sculptures of Karel Appel" by Donald Kuspit, Notes, Chronology, Exhibition History, Selected Bibliography, Selected Museum Collections, List of Foundries, and Index. From inside the dust jacket: "Karel Appel Sculpture is the first complete volume on his sculptures, from his earliest pieces of 1947, when the young founder of the CoBrA movement burst on the scene in Europe, to Appel's most recent works of the past year. In the text, Donald Kuspit delves into the intense emotion that he says is the essence of Karel Appel's art."