Giuseppe Capogrossi - Lettere per Ada - 2012
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Giuseppe Capogrossi’s *Lettere per Ada* is a 2012 Italian-language limited-edition illustrated art book in hardback.
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Giuseppe Capogrossi: Letters for Ada (2012, limited edition of 200 copies)
Author: Giuseppe Capogrossi
Title: Letters for Ada
Introduction: Ada Zunino and Guglielmo Capogrossi
Place and printing: Vimodrone, Artegraf Printing Solutions
Year: 2012
Format: 8vo, 23 x 15 cm
Binding: hard cover, full red cloth with black design on the two boards, as in the original
Pages: 94 color plates printed on recto only, numerous white sheets as in the original, 14 unnumbered initial pages, 2 final pages with the colophon
Print run: limited to 200 numbered copies; the offered copy is unnumbered
Language: Italian
Conditions: excellent
Facsimile reproduction of a tempera drawings album that Giuseppe Capogrossi composed between 1961 and 1972 and donated to Ada Zunino, gallerist, his friend and muse. Zunino worked from 1960 at Carlo Cardazzo’s Naviglio Gallery, where she met Capogrossi and other great artists of the time. The plates are small “divertissements” dedicated to her, and the volume reproduces its original layout, including the white sheets and the red cloth binding.
Giuseppe Capogrossi: Letters for Ada (2012, limited edition of 200 copies)
Author: Giuseppe Capogrossi
Title: Letters for Ada
Introduction: Ada Zunino and Guglielmo Capogrossi
Place and printing: Vimodrone, Artegraf Printing Solutions
Year: 2012
Format: 8vo, 23 x 15 cm
Binding: hard cover, full red cloth with black design on the two boards, as in the original
Pages: 94 color plates printed on recto only, numerous white sheets as in the original, 14 unnumbered initial pages, 2 final pages with the colophon
Print run: limited to 200 numbered copies; the offered copy is unnumbered
Language: Italian
Conditions: excellent
Facsimile reproduction of a tempera drawings album that Giuseppe Capogrossi composed between 1961 and 1972 and donated to Ada Zunino, gallerist, his friend and muse. Zunino worked from 1960 at Carlo Cardazzo’s Naviglio Gallery, where she met Capogrossi and other great artists of the time. The plates are small “divertissements” dedicated to her, and the volume reproduces its original layout, including the white sheets and the red cloth binding.
Details
Number of books
1
Subject
Art, Illustrated
Book title
Lettere per Ada
Author/ Illustrator
Giuseppe Capogrossi
Condition
Very good
Artist
Giuseppe Capogrossi (1900-1972)
Publication year oldest item
2012
Height
23 cm
Edition
Limited edition
Width
15 cm
Language
Italian
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Artegraf printing solutions
Binding/ Material
Hardback
Number of pages
64
