“XXe SIECLE 17”, 1961 ORIGINAL COLOR LITHOGRAPH BY DUTCH PAINTER AND SCULPTOR KAREL APPEL (1921-2006)

This is an original color lithograph by the Dutch artist Karel Appel created in 1961 especially for the XXe Siècle (Vingtieme Siecle) magazine issue “Nouvelle Serie No.17 - Christmas 1961: The Great Adventure of Modern Art”, first American edition published by Tudor Publishing, New York.

Unsigned and unnumbered as issued, printed in colors on wove paper, the image and sheet size measures 12 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches. Text printed on the verso of the sheet lower left: APPEL. Original lithograph for XXe siècle. (Pons, Paris).The lithograph, which had been carefully removed from the magazine by a previous owner, comes unframed.

XXe Siècle: The publication XXe Siècle was the brainchild of Italian-born art historian Gualtieri di San Lazzaro (1904-1974). Each issue of the XXe Siècle magazines published included articles about the most influential artists of the twentieth-century and also included original lithographic prints by those very artists. The periodical was published intermittently between 1938 and 1974 (San Lazzaro’s death), for a total of about sixty issues. Well-connected in the Parisian art scene San Lazzaro commissioned original artistic contributions from the likes of Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, and Joan Miró.