Pastorale Chiaroscuro

The Dutch born artist Karel Appel was unquestionably one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, helping to define one of its chief features: "If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age," he once famously declared. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum shows that he was still going strong in the last decade of his life, presenting a selection of the artist's paintings, sculptures and works on paper from his final phase.