oil on canvas, signed 'CK. Appel' lower right, dedicated 'voor Tess. van Karel' on the reverse, 50,7 x 29 cm.

Provenance: A gift from the artist to Tess van Eyck (b. 1945), daughter of Aldo and Hannie, in 1949; Exhibited: Rotterdam, Nieuwe Instituut, “Built Homecoming”: The House of Aldo and Hannie van Eyck, 12 September 2024-15 January 2025; Literature: Aldo van Eyck, Niet om het even … wel evenwaardig, van en over Aldo van Eyck, Rotterdam, 1986, p. 53 (illustrated in b/w); Robert MacCarter, Aldo van Eyck, New Haven/London, 2015, p. 30

Aldo van Eyck remembers how the children of Appel's friends were each invited to the artist's studio, to choose a painting of their liking (Aldo van Eyck 1986, p. 53). The present lot hung in an alcove above Tess van Eyck's bed and the photograph which Jan Versnel took of this corner of her bedroom (part of a series of the interior of the Van Eycks' apartment on the Binnenkant, Amsterdam, first published in the magazine 'Goed Wonen' in February 1951) has been widely featured since in publications about Aldo and Hannie van Eyck's work and life. Another example of such a 'Kinderschilderij' (children's painting) was sold at Christie's Amsterdam, 25 April 2023, lot 57.