Giuseppe Capogrossi was born in 1900 in Rome. After earning a law degree in 1922, he decided to become an artist and began to study under the fresco painter Giambattista Conti, and later at the studio of Felice Carena. Around the same time he formed a close relationship with the painter Emanuele Cavalli, an association that would last some twenty years. In 1925 he attended the Casa d’Arte Bragaglia, and between 1927 and 1933 he traveled several times to Paris, where he became particularly interested in the work of Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

In 1928 Capogrossi was invited to show at the Venice Biennale, and in 1932 he participated in the III Mostra del Sindacato Regionale Fascista Belle Arti del Lazio...