Selected bibliography
| Year | Author | Title | Source | Details | Type Sort descending |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Wesseling, Janneke | De Appelwand in het Stedelijk Museum lijkt niet meer geschilderd | NRC Handelsblad | CS en Boeken, September 10, 2010, p. 2 | Article |
| 1998 | Maruyama, Eiko | The World of Karel Appel | The Japanese journal | De Regio Publishers, Amsterdam (April - June 1998) | Article |
| 1984 | Dypreau, Jean | Karel Appel ou le bel aujourd'hui | +/o | year XI, # 40 (June 1984), p. 13 |
Article |
| 1990 | Berends, Lambiek | On the publishing of -De Kleurige Onbekende- | Het Parool | December 22, 1990 | Article |
| 1995 | Jansen, Kasper | Prachtige Zauberflöte van Appel en Audi | NRC Handelsblad | December 2, 1995 | Article |
| 2004 | Braet, Jan | Het paradijs is nu | Knack | (interview with Rudi Fuchs and Karel Appel), # 41, October 6, 2004, pp. 124–128 |
Article |
| 1964 | Citroen, Paul | Appel or Citroen | Delta. A Review of Arts Life and Thought in the Netherlands | # 1 (spring 1964), pp. 13-23 |
Article |
| 1987 | Dobbels, Daniel | Karel Appel du vide | La Liberation | August 11, 1987, p. 24 | Article |
| 1992 | Cotter, Holland | Karel Appel | New York Times | review, December 25, 1992 | Article |
| 1998 | Vagheggi, Paolo | Tutti i nemici del CoBrA | La Repubblica | (interview), December 7, 1998 | Article |
| 1984 | Jamie, Rasaad | Appel Now | Artscribe | (interview), # 45 (February - April 1984), pp. 41-47 | Article |
| 1990 | Ellenbroek, Willem | Van het aapstadium groei ik naar de mens | de Volkskrant | December 7, 1990 | Article |
| 1995 | Kimmelman, Michael | Rethinking Postwar Pigeonholes for Art | The New York Times | July 7, 1995 | Article |
| 2004 | Camps, Hugo | Hugo Camps in gesprek met schilder Karel Appel | Elsevier | (interview), # 44, October 30, 2004, pp. 42-44 | Article |
| 1964 | Lévêque, Jean-Jacques | Venise 1963: actualité de Cobra | XXe Siecle | year 26, # 23 (May 1964) |
Article |
| 1987 | Fallon, Brian | The Roaring Boy | The Irish Times | January 14, 1987 | Article |
| 1992 | Erkel, Ronald van | The Intuitive Logistics of Karel Appel | Nedlloyd World | (autumn 1992), pp. 28-31 | Article |
| 1977 | Frankenstein, Alfred | Rambling Around Mexico City | San Francisco Chronicle | October 20, 1977 |
Article |
| 1984 | Lamarque-Mouzon, Mary-Lou | Karel Appel, Une certaine liberté de propos | Art Thèmes | (interview) 1984, pp. 14-15 | Article |
| 1990 | Fuchs, Rudi | The influence of New York on Karel Appel | NRC Handelsblad | June 22, 1990 |
Article |
| 1995 | Kraft, Martin | Karel Appel. Lebende Legende | Neue Züricher Zeitung | September 29, 1995 | Article |
| 2004 | Dumont, Benoît | Karel Appel, peintre au regard toujours neuf | Fortis Tribune | # 17 (September 2004), p. 16 | Article |
| 1953 | Bowles, Paul | Paris! City of the Arts | Holiday | (April 1953), pp. 111–121 | Article |
| 1980 | Impe, Marc van | Karel Appel en de spanning tussen rood en blauw | Nieuwsnet | (interview), week 32, August 9, 1980 |
Article |
| 1987 | Kontova, Helena & Politi, Giancarlo | Interview with Karel Appel | Flash Art | international edition, # 134 (May 1987), pp. 50-53 |
Article |
| 1992 | Schug, Albert | Die Kunst unseres Jahrhunderts | Naumann & Göbel, Cologne, 1992, pp. 153, 212, 296 | Article | |
| 1977 | Jespersen, Gunnar | Karel Appel, Cobra | Gyldendal, Copenhagen, 1974, pp. 129-132 | Article | |
| 1984 | Meijer, Ischa | Nomad | Vrij Nederland | (interview), April 28, 1984 | Article |
| 1990 | Haak, Bregtje van der | Karel Appel 50 jaar schildersdrift | Beelding | (interview), # 10 (December 1990 - January 1991) | Article |
| 1960 | Sawyer, Kenneth B. | Karel Appel: Paintings 1955–1960 and Recent Gouaches | exh. cat. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1960 |
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| 1981 | Honnef, Klaus | Appel | with text by Klaus Honnef (reprint from exh. cat. Dreissig Jahre Karel Appel, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven), exh. cat. Museu de Arte do São Paulo, 1981 |
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| 2012 | Edwards, Jennifer Sudul | Pasadena to Santa Barbara: Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951 – 1969 | with texts by Jennifer Sudul Edwards et al., exh. cat. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2012 |
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| 1960 | Neuburg, Hans & Ragon, Michel | Karel Appel | with texts by Hans Neuburg (preprint from 1959), Michel Ragon (reprint from 1958), exh. cat. Galleria Lorenzelli, Bergamo, Italy, 1960 |
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| 1954 | Doelman, Cornelis | Olanda | exh. cat. Biennale di Venezia XXVII, 1954 |
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| 1981 | Reinhartz-Tergau, Elisabeth | Karel Appel: tentoonstelling t.g.v. zijn 60-ste verjaardag, | exh. cat. Galerie Nova Spectra, The Hague, 1981 |
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| 2012 | Bashkoff, Tracey | Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949 - 1960 | with texts by Tracey Bashkoff et al., exh. cat. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2012 |
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| 1978 | Wingen, Ed | Dreissig Jahre Karel Appel | with text by Ed Wingen (reprint from 1977), exh. cat. Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany, 1978 & Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn & Kunsthalle, Wilhelmshaven, Germany |
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| 1954 | Tapié, Michel | Appel | exh. cat. Studio Paul Fachetti, Paris, 1954 |
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| 2000 | Fuchs, Rudi & Dosogne, Ludo | Karel Appel | with text by Rudi Fuchs (reprint from 1996) and interview by Ludo Dosogne, exh. cat. Galerie Kusseneers, Lier, Belgium |
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| 1978 | Dypreau, Jean | Karel Appel. Peintures et sculptures | exh. cat. Fondation Chateau de Jau, Cases-de-Pène, France, 1978 |
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| 1954 | Tapié, Michel | Karel Appel: First American Exhibition | with text by Michel Tapié (reprint from exh. cat. Studio Paul Fachetti, 1954), exh. cat. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1954 |
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| 2013 | Stokvis, Willemijn | Karel Appel. I do not paint, I hit! | exh. cat. Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark, 2013 |
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| 2000 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | Karel Appel: Recente sculpturen & gedichten | with text by Franz-W. Kaiser (reprint from 1998), exh. cat. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium |
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| 1967 | Sandberg, Willem | Karel Appel | with text by Willem Sandberg (excerpt from 1961), exh. cat. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1967 |
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| 1961 | Lucebert | Karel Appel | with text by Lucebert (first publication of text from 1950 and excerpt of poem from 1960), exh. cat. Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands & Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, 1961 | Catalogue | |
| 2014 | Gingeras, Alison | Karel Appel | exh. cat. Blum & Poe, New York, 2014 |
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| 1961 | Sandberg, Willem | Karel Appel: West Coast Exhibiton | exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1961 |
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| 1991 | Fuchs, Rudi | Karel Appel: Black & White Paintings | exh. cat. Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, 1991 |
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| 2005 | Fuchs, Rudi | Karel Appel. Opere 1991 – 2002 | exh. cat. Galleria Arte 92, Milan, 2005 |
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| 1955 | Tapié, Michel | Karel Appel | with poems by Emmanuel Looten, Hugo Claus, exh. cat. Galerie Rive Droite, Paris & Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1955 |
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