“.. because I live in Paris, but just outside Paris at the start of Yonne, I have a barn, a very, very big barn.... right near Auxerre, a barn forty meters long, six meters wide and fifteen meters high, and I do all my work there.. it's like a large street, you know.”

—  Karel Appel

describing the location outside Paris, where he makes his large relief compositions
Karel Appel defines his painting', interview 1968

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