Lithograph, cm 20x31 image, cm 48x64 sheet. Author's signature and numbered print run in pencil at bottom, copy No. 28/75. Very good specimen. In the complex profile of a master of the twentieth century, that of Giuseppe Capogrossi, in the late 1940s-early 1950s, a new artistic paradigm enters, the invention of an anti-naturalistic iconic sign, called in many ways, comb, rebbio, forchette. The sign is disengaged from the iconological sign. The artist's career will be characterized until his death by the alchemical repetition of this ancestral sign to which the artist does not want to associate any meaning and which like a form, especially black on white becomes more important than any other image: a repetitive, elementary and primary graphic sign, strongly communicative, associated with flat color backgrounds, never material. Many works from his figurative phase will be destroyed and thus disavowed. Bibliography:Von Hase-Schmundt, U., Capogrossi. Das Graphische Werk,1982 p. 94.