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Modern & Contemporary Art - Part II

Thursday 19 May 2022, 11:00 AM • Rome

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Giuseppe Capogrossi

(Roma 1900 - 1972)

Seated woman, 1940/'41

Artist's Resale Right

Estimate

€ 500 - 700

Sold

€ 640

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

diluted china ink on paper
50 x 35 cm

Signed lower right: Capogrossi 1938
margins slightly damaged


Provenance

Rome, F. Pigorini Collection;
Rome, Private Collection

Exhibition

Spoleto, Capogrossi untill 1948, Palazzo Rosari Spada, June - July1986; Rome, Capogrossi untill 1948, Complesso Monumentale di San Michele a Ripa, Sala delle Navi, October - November 1986, ill.n°86 

Literature

G. Capogrossi, F.R. Morelli, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, 1920 - 1949, ed. Skira, Milan, 2012, ill. p.294 n°351 

Specialist Notes

the Catalogue Raisonné specifies that, like in other similar cases, the drawing has been signed afterwards, also stylistic comparisons lead to a most likely dating of the work around 1940/'41