Description: GIUSEPPE CAPOGROSSISURFACE 24 (1952) Bookplate Print on sheet that measures approx. 9 3/8" x 10-5/8". Condition: Very Good used condition. Bookplate print has printing on verso. 1962 Full Color Print - Photo-Offset by Drukkerij Smeets in Weert, Holland for Harry N. Abrams publisher. This listing is for the actual print pictured. Because every monitor displays differently, expect that there will be some variance between what you see on the monitor and how the print will look in your hands. The image of the print posted on this listing is as representative of the actual print as I could make it. The print is over 60 years old, in very good condition over all, and is a full color Photo-Offset print. Capogrossi turned to abstractionism around the 1950s, after a long career as a figurative painter. He had begun painting in the twenties under the guidance of Felice Carena, matured in the Roman school of tonalism in the following decade and transited in the post-war period to neo-Cubism. Since then, a letter-similar character has characterised his entire production, becoming the main, instantly recognisable expression of his art. It is a three-pointed sign (a sort of rounded E) that the artist repeats in infinite combinations and with ever-changing rhythms, varying sizes, numbers, expansions and contractions, alignments and interruptions: a sort of binary code through which he overcomes the appearance of nature to represent an inner organisation of the space. The prevalence of black and white in his works also responds to this logic of dominance of signs, as does the rigour of the flat background, although here at times it is blurred slightly by the silkscreen printing technique."He is the most varied, so furiously equal to himself, the most varied painter there is in the world," Giuseppe Ungaretti wrote of Capogrossi in 1969, also observing how his "qabbalistic locks with perpetual closure" afford access to the secrets of the universe to those who know how to open them. Abstract art, modern art, painting, avant-garde, dadaism, cubism, surrealism, fauvism, de stilj, geometric art. About the Printer:In 1830 Mathaeus Smeets started a printing company in Weert with their first hand press. Five generations of Smeets then brought the company to great prosperity and the printing company became an innovative and internationally operating company. In the 1970s, the company had a workforce of more than 1200 employees.The printing company was sold to VNU in 1968 and was no longer a family business.The company was usually called "Drukkerij Smeets" in Weert, but in the course of its history it had various names such as Emmanuel Smeets, Smeets Offset, Koninklijke Smeets Offset and Roto Smeets Weert.LOC: A9-FStoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackGIUSEPPE CAPOGROSSI BOOKPLATE PRINT ABSTRACT Modern Art 1962 NEO-CUBISM ITALY GIUSEPPE CAPOGROSSISURFACE 24 (1952) Bookplate Print on sheet that measures approx. 9 3/8" x 10-5/8". Condition: Very Good used condition. Bookplate print has printing on verso. 1962 Full Color Print - Photo-Offset by Drukkerij Smeets in Weert, Holland for Harry N. Abrams publisher. This listing is for the actual print pictured. Because every monitor displays differently, expect that there will be some variance between what you see on the monitor and how the print will look in your hands. The image of the print posted on this listing is as representative of the actual print as I could make it. The print is over 60 years old, in very good condition over all, and is a full color Photo-Offset print. Capogrossi turned to abstractionism around the 1950s, after a long career as a figurative painter. He had begun painting in the twenties under the guidance of Felice Carena, matured in the Roman school of tonalism in the following decade and transited in the post-war period to neo-Cubism. Since then, a letter-similar character has characterised his entire production, becoming the main, instantly recognisable expression of his art. It is a three-pointed sign (a sort of rounded E) that the artist repeats in infinite combinations and with ever-changing rhythms, varying sizes, numbers, expansions and contractions, alignments and interruptions: a sort of binary code through which he overcomes the appearance of nature to represent an inner organisation of the space. The prevalence of black and white in his works also responds to this logic of dominance of signs, as does the rigour of the flat background, although here at times it is blurred slightly by the silkscreen printing technique."He is the most varied, so furiously equal to himself, the most varied painter there is in the world," Giuseppe Ungaretti wrote of Capogrossi in 1969, also observing how his "qabbalistic locks with perpetual closure" afford access to the secrets of the universe to those who know how to open them. Abstract art, modern art, painting, avant-garde, dadaism, cubism, surrealism, fauvism, de stilj, geometric art. About the Printer:In 1830 Mathaeus Smeets started a printing company in Weert with their first hand press. Five generations of Smeets then brought the company to great prosperity and the printing company became an innovative and internationally operating company. In the 1970s, the company had a workforce of more than 1200 employees.The printing company was sold to VNU in 1968 and was no longer a family business.The company was usually called "Drukkerij Smeets" in Weert, but in the course of its history it had various names such as Emmanuel Smeets, Smeets Offset, Koninklijke Smeets Offset and Roto Smeets Weert.LOC: A9-F
Price: 12.25 USD
Location: Tonawanda, New York
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Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
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Features: Full Color
Region of Origin: HOLLAND
Personalize: No
Handmade: No
Item Width: 9-3/8
Title: SURFACE 24 (1952)
Production Technique: PHOTO-OFFSET LITHOGRAPHY
Item Height: 10-5/8
Subject: ABSTRACT ART
Size: Small (up to 12in.)
Country/Region of Manufacture: Netherlands
Material: Paper
Period: Post-War (1940-1970)
Certificate of Authenticity (COA): No
Time Period Produced: 1960-1969
Image Orientation: Portrait
Framing: Unframed
Artist: GIUSEPPE CAPOGROSSI
Year of Production: 1962
Original/Licensed Reprint: Licensed Reprint
Style: Abstract, Art Nouveau, Avant-garde, Bauhaus, Contemporary Art, Cubism, Dadaism, Experimental, Expressionism, Impressionism, Modernism, Surrealism, Vintage
Signed: No
Unit of Sale: Single Piece
Theme: ABSTRACT ART, ABSTRACT PAINTING, De Stilj, EXPRESSIONISM, FAUVISM, Geometric Art, MODERN ART, MODERNISM
Type: Print
