Artist: Giuseppe Capogrossi (1900 - 1972)
Title: "Opale 7"
Specimen: 57/80
Technique: Lithograph
Size without frame: 76 x 56 cm
Giuseppe Capogrossi (1900 - 1972) after classical studies, graduated in Law. In 1923 he studied painting and in 1927 he made a trip to Paris, which would be followed by several others. In 1930 he participated in the Venice Biennale and two years later at the Milan Triennale. In 1933 he signed the Manifesto of Plastic Primordialism and participated in numerous group exhibitions. The works of the post-war period lead to abstract painting following a period marked by figuration. He became an exponent of the Roman School Novecento and a prominent figure in the panorama of Italian Informalism together with Fontana, Burri, Scanavino.