Pine Tree
Pine Tree, Giovanni Segantini (Italian, 1858 - 1899) c. 1897
1982.124
Gallery - SE 207.5
Segantini painted this picture in the Swiss Alps, where he lived from 1886 to 1899. The composition is a study for an unrealized painting of Adam and Eve in paradise. Segantini’s distinctive technique is characterized by brilliant colors applied in small strokes to create an unusually vibrant surface. The artist may have intended that the bent, twisted tree, struggling for survival against alpine storms, is a metaphor for human perseverance.
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1982.124
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