Beach Life

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Object Details

Artist

Karel Appel, Dutch, b. Amsterdam, 1921–2006

Provenance

Jh Purchased From Gimpel Fils, London 1959

Exhibition History

SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART, California. "Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951-1969," 11 February-6 May 2012.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Manifesto: Art x Agency," 15 June 2019-31 January 2020.

Published References

AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 141, p. 156.

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

Date

1958

Accession Number

66.62

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

63 3/8 × 51 1/8 in. (161 × 130 cm)

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School

Postwar European

Data Source

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py2da722d8a-55aa-428a-9be8-b16225872512

Record ID

hmsg_66.62