Christiaan Karel Appel, born April 25th, 1921, was a multi disciplined Dutch artist. Appel was a talented painter, sculptor, and poet. Appel began painting at the age of fourteen and attended the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. Appel was one of the founders of the 1948 avant-garde movement CoBrA. Appel's talent as a sculptor achieved international fame, having works featured in MoMA and other museums worldwide. Appel derived much inspiration from primitive art and children’s drawings. Appel is primarily known for his paintings that combine elements of both figuration and of abstraction. His paintings were known for the bright color, violent brushwork and thick application of impasto pain. Appel died on May 3rd, 2006, in his home in Zürich, Switzerland. This abstract still life, Tete Volante, contains all the characteristics that Appel is known for, in this composition vibrant hues of red, yellow, blue and green are predominant and emphasized by thick contour strokes. A couple of the immediate identifiable fruits are a banana and a pear. The rest of the work can be interpreted differently by each viewer, the platter for instance has elements of a visage. The print is signed by the artist and is numbered 54/60.