“The only control that I excercize [in painting] is to not throw too much paint next to the canvas.”

—  Karel Appel

MR1, 177; p. 215
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)

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Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet 1921–2006

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