coloured pencil and wax crayon on paper, signed and dated 'CK Appel '48' lower left, 20,3 x 30,4 cm.

Exhibited: Rotterdam, Nieuwe Instituut, “Built Homecoming”: The House of Aldo and Hannie van Eyck, 12 September 2024-15 January 2025

For other works by the artist with the subject of 'Vragende Kinderen/Questioning children', see lot numbers 1011 and 1041. The series of works from 1948/1949 with the subject of 'Vragende Kinderen/Questioning Children' were inspired by the sight of begging children during a train journey through Germany that Karel Appel made soon after the end of World War II (see the website of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, for more information on this subject).