Appel ‘48

A richly layered work combining a photographic or painted base in grays and blacks with bold embroidered figures and faces in orange, yellow, red, magenta, and purple thread. Multiple expressive, child-like portraits overlap across the surface in Strik's characteristic technique of stitching on a photographic image.

Material

Stitched canvas, mixed media textile

Date

2024
Appel ‘48 — 2025 — Stitched canvas, mixed media textile — by Berend Strik

About the piece

A richly layered work combining a photographic or painted base in grays andblacks with bold embroidered figures and faces in orange, yellow, red, magenta,and purple thread.

Medium: photo of a lost painting by Karel Appel, sourceKarel Appel Foundation, Amsterdam.

Year: 2024

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