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Portrait of Karel Appel.
1958-1963, scratched gelatin silver print
Karel Appel and Ed van der Elsken are playing a game with each other here. In one picture the photographer scratched tears and the text, ‘Well, the photographer sometimes wants to try out something [new]/ always [doing] the same is no good/ and not so much an experiment for its own sake’; on the other print, Appel wrote and drew in the area of the empty canvas – as though he had done that there in real life.
- Artwork typephotograph
- Object numberRP-F-2019-242-16-1
- Dimensionsheight 249 mm x width 209 mm, height 249 mm x width 242 mm
- Physical characteristicsontwikkelgelatinezilverdruk; ingekrast op recto