(Rome 1900–1972)
Superficie n°92, 1954, signed, dated and titled on the reverse, oil on canvas, 73x 60 cm, framed

This work is registered in the Archivio Capogrossi, Rome and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity

Provenance:
Galleria del Naviglio, Milan (stamp, label on the reverse and certificate available)
European Private Collection (acquired from the above during the 1970s)

Literature:
G. C. Argan (ed.), Capogrossi, Editalia, Rome 1967, p. 153, no. 140 with ill. (with incorrect dimensions)

The symbolic implications of Capogrossi's sign are debateable, but no one has ever
recognised an emblematic character in it. The sign pattern may well have unconscious symbolic implications; the pattern itself will become characteristic and return like the timbre of a musical note in all the artist's painting and graphics.
I would qualify it as the sign of existence, a mandala. As is the case in Indian art, it is in fact a liberating sign that frees existence from the limits of space and time while summarising these in its own figure. The artist's statements are explicit: 'in that sign I found freedom, happiness, the fullness of one's being, the direct expression of one's existence...
Palma Bucarelli, excerpt from the exh. catalogue “Giuseppe Capogrossi”, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, 1974