Untitled (Deux Personnages)

Artist Karel Appel Dutch, 1921 - 2006

Daten.d.

MediumColor lithograph on paper

DimensionsSight: 13 3/8 x 20 in. (34 x 50.8 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 22 x 29 1/8 x 5/8 in. (55.9 x 74 x 1.6 cm)

ClassificationsPrints

Credit LineDonated by Stephen J. Sills, M.D. in loving memory of his wife Nancy Mintz Sills.

Object number2008.3.2

On View

Not on view

Collections

Modern and Contemporary Art
Works on Paper

SignedLR, cursive in pencil : "Appel"; LL, block printed in pencil : "E.A."

MarkingsOn the brown paper backing, two lables, a white adhesive label on typed in all caps: "PROPERTY OF NANCY M. SILLS". and a blue on white pre-printed label "The/Frame & Art /Shops/ Amsterdam/ East Greenbush/Guilderland/ Schenectady."

DescriptionTwo semi-abstract figures with large heads, drawn with wide blue-black lines and colored largely in red-orange, turquoise, yellow and kelly green. The right hand figure has pointy ears, bulging eyes and a jagged mouth, the left hand figure has an owl-like head with a small beak between the eyes.

The title, Deux Personnages (Two Personages) may indicate two characters in a play or story or any person of distinction or otherwise. In Late Middle English the word personage was associated with a sculpture or image of a person. In his appraisal of 2007 Timothy Tetlow translated the title as "Two Figures,"

Narrow gilt frame, double mat, lower one red matching the red ink of the print, upper mat is white, glazed with plexi.Exhibition History"Elemental - Discerning Color", Rounda Gallery, October 17, 2015- January 10, 2016ProvenanceGreat Neck, NY, Sam Mintz
2002, Guilderland, NY, Stephen and Nancy Mintz Sills (by inheritance)
2008, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust