Estimate: € 30,000.00 - € 50,000.00
1957-1959
Tempera on dusting paper applied to canvas
35 x 50 cm
Work accompanied by a certificate of authenticity on photograph issued by Fondazione Capogrossi, Rome
Work accompanied by a certificate of authenticity on photograph issued by Galleria San Carlo, Milan
Following his early figurative beginnings, Giuseppe Capogrossi established himself as one of the most important abstract artists of the post-World War II period in Italy.
His informal research-which began in the late 1940s with works titled Superficie (Surface) followed by the relative numbering - focused on the obsessive and changing repetition of different types of archetypal signs (usually in the shape of a comb) with which to break down any narrative superstructure related to painting, concentrating instead on its essentiality. The repetition of signs was therefore accompanied by a study of colors, a combination with which he was able to confer, together with the alternation between full and empty spaces, a dynamic character to his compositions.
PROVENANCE:
Galleria Grillo, Monterotondo (stamps on the reverse)
Galleria d'arte Niccoli, Parma
Galleria San Carlo, Milan (label and stamp on the reverse)
Private collection, Milan
EXHIBITED:
February 1986, Capogrossi. Opere dal 1951 al 1971, Galleria Niccoli, Parma
LITERATURE:
AA.VV., Capogrossi. Opere dal 1951 al 1971, catalogue of the exhibition held at Galleria Niccoli, Parma, 1986, p. 30 (ill.)
G. Capogrossi Guarna, Capogrossi. Gouaches, collages, disegni, Electa, 1981, n. 298, p. 315 (ill.)
Tempera on dusting paper applied to canvas
35 x 50 cm
Work accompanied by a certificate of authenticity on photograph issued by Fondazione Capogrossi, Rome
Work accompanied by a certificate of authenticity on photograph issued by Galleria San Carlo, Milan
Following his early figurative beginnings, Giuseppe Capogrossi established himself as one of the most important abstract artists of the post-World War II period in Italy.
His informal research-which began in the late 1940s with works titled Superficie (Surface) followed by the relative numbering - focused on the obsessive and changing repetition of different types of archetypal signs (usually in the shape of a comb) with which to break down any narrative superstructure related to painting, concentrating instead on its essentiality. The repetition of signs was therefore accompanied by a study of colors, a combination with which he was able to confer, together with the alternation between full and empty spaces, a dynamic character to his compositions.
PROVENANCE:
Galleria Grillo, Monterotondo (stamps on the reverse)
Galleria d'arte Niccoli, Parma
Galleria San Carlo, Milan (label and stamp on the reverse)
Private collection, Milan
EXHIBITED:
February 1986, Capogrossi. Opere dal 1951 al 1971, Galleria Niccoli, Parma
LITERATURE:
AA.VV., Capogrossi. Opere dal 1951 al 1971, catalogue of the exhibition held at Galleria Niccoli, Parma, 1986, p. 30 (ill.)
G. Capogrossi Guarna, Capogrossi. Gouaches, collages, disegni, Electa, 1981, n. 298, p. 315 (ill.)