At the back Galleria d'arte del Naviglio, Milan, label and Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, exhibition label.
Exhibitions: Galleria del Secolo, Rome, January 1950; Galleria del Milione, Milan, February, 1950; Galleria del Cavallino, Venice, March 1950; Giuseppe Capogrossi, National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, 12 December 1974-2 February 1975.
Provenance: Naviglio Art Gallery collection, Milan;Toyofuku Tomonori Collection.
Publication: Capogrossi - monograph edited by G.C. Argan, Editalia, 1967 - Update volume, Edizioni del Naviglio, Milan p. 11 table 23 (wrong year and technique); Giuseppe Capogrossi edited by Palma Bucarelli, De Luca Editore, National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, 12 December 1975 - 2 February 1975, p. 56, pl. 35; Newsletter Superintendence of the Rome Galleries - contemporary art, National Gallery of Modern Art, n.5, December 1974-February 1975 (not illustrated).
Thanks to the National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, for the information about the artwork.
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, authenticity certificate with the inventory number (copy).

With the gradual abandonment of figuration, after a short period of neo-Cubist experiences (1947-1949), he arrives at a rigorous and personal abstract art characterized by a single form-sign.
Capogrossi exhibited the works of this 'new' path in a famous exhibition in 1950 at the Galleria del Secolo in Rome, then at the Galleria Il Milione in Milan and finally at the Galleria del Cavallino in Venice (Superfici 018; 013; 019; 029; 022; 020; 021; 131 and 698). In this period the relationship with Carlo Cardazzo began, director of Il Cavallino in Venice and Il Naviglio in Milan with whom he collaborated intensely.
Since 1968, Giuseppe Capogrossi was always present in the halls of the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. In fact, Palma Bucarelli, director of the museum from 1942 to 1975, was a great supporter of the master's painting and considered the "adventure of the sign" undertaken by Capogrossi as one of the most fruitful contributions to Italian art of the second half of the twentieth century.