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Pine Tree

c. 1897

Giovanni Segantini

(Italian, 1858–1899)
Culture
Italy, 19th century
Medium
oil on fabric
Measurements
Framed: 149.5 x 84.8 x 4.1 cm (58 7/8 x 33 3/8 x 1 5/8 in.); Unframed: 135.2 x 72 cm (53 1/4 x 28 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1982.124
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The bottom right portion of this painting was left unfinished; the earth-red ground layer is still visible.

Description

Segantini painted this view of a pine tree in the Swiss Alps with his distinctive combination of brilliant colors applied in small, broken strokes. Rather than a direct transcription of nature, the extreme close-up view and the flat, decorative space are designed to arouse an emotional response. Finding spiritual consolation in the lush forests and clear light around his home in the Alps, Segantini wrote: “I am now working passionately to wrest the secret of Nature’s spirit from her. Nature utters the eternal word to the artist: love, love; and the earth sings life in spring, and the soul of things reawakens.”
A vertically oriented oil painting with dense, pointillist brushstrokes depicts a forest. A thick gray tree trunk curves upward from the bottom left alongside a thinner trunk. Tiny dabs of yellow and green create shimmering foliage, interspersed with clusters of reddish-pink flowers. In the lower right corner, a dark reddish-brown stream flows forward, its surface marked by thin white streaks indicating water tumbling over small ledges.

Pine Tree

c. 1897

Giovanni Segantini

(Italian, 1858–1899)
Italy, 19th century

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