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Description: Superficie no. 141 signed and dated 'Capogrossi 55' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 68 5/8 x 341/2in. (174.2 x 87.5cm.) Painted in 1955 PROVENANCE World House Gallery, New York. Anon. sale; Sotheby's London, 30 November 1989, lot 618 (sold for œ96,800). LITERATURE G. Argan, Capogrossi, Rome, 1967, no. 195 (incorrectly numbered 194 and illustrated horizontally p. 159). M. Goldin, Figura della pittura, Arte in Italia 1956-68, Milan, 1995, p. 26. EXHIBITION Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Memoria del futuro: arte italiano desde las primeras vanguardias de la postguerra, 1990, p. 414. Milan, Galleria Ruggerini & Zonca, Astrazione informale segno, May-June 1991, no. 4. Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Roma 1950-59, Il rinnovamento della pittura in Italia, 1995-1996, no. 19, p. 64.