Capogrossi

Giuseppe Capogrossi (1900-1972). Italian painter. He designed jewellery in the spirit of the abstract compositions of his paintings. In particular, he adopted, both in pictures and brooches, a prong mark which he repeated in different patterns creating color contrasts among the materials used. For a brooch created in the 1950s, he brought together yellow gold, diamonds, coral, and onyx. Among the first Italians to devote himself to informal sign painting, the Roman artist Capogrossi collaborated, in the early 1950s, with the dressmaker Marucelli. In the Collection of Giancarlo Calza, the son of the designer, there are some taffeta dresses accompanied by the artist’s original sketches, and an evening dress from the Autumn-Winter 1967-1968 Collection with sequins and abstract trimming.