(Rome 1900–1972)
Superficie 1C, 1950, signed and dated on the reverse, oil on canvas, 146 x 115.5 cm, framed

Provenance:
Galleria del Naviglio, Milan (label on the reverse)
Sale, Finarte Milan, 9 November 1999, lot 183
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Venice, XXVI Biennale Internazionale d‘Arte, 1952, label on the reverse,(all four panels exhibited as Superficie 1)

Literature:
Phases, Edouard Jaguer (ed.), n. 1, Paul Fachetti, Paris 1954, p. 24 with. ill. (all four panels illustrated)
G. C. Argan, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Editalia Rome 1967, no. 1, tav. 3
G. Di Natale, „Toujours le même signe!“ Giuseppe Capogrossi alla prova delle ricerche astratto-surrealiste nell‘Europa del secondo dopoguerra, in Ricerche di Storia dell‘Arte. Scritture, spazi, superfici. La disciplina del segno negli anni‚
‘40 e ‘50 del Novecento, no. 135, Carocci Editore Rome, 2021, no. 5, p. 33

“This simplicity is also reflected in the almost brutal choice of colours.
Such combination and unity in the choice of sign – the harrow or trident,
a sure echo of the material world - and colour make your 'surfaces'
an inexhaustible source of delight.”
Letter from Édouard Jaguer to Giuseppe Capogrossi, Paris 6 April 1951.