Cleveland Museum of Art
Pine Tree
Giovanni SegantiniLinkedCulture matchlcp-502db4ead0bd
- Date
- c. 1897
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Culture
- Italy, 19th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 150693
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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.” The bottom right portion of this painting was left unfinished; the earth-red ground layer is still visible.
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- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Provenance
- Until 1907: (Galleria Alberto Grubicy, Milan) | Probably until 1939: Oscar Bernhard [1861-1939], Samaden/St. Moritz, probably by descent to his daughter, Annigna Petitpierre-Bernhard | Probably 1939-at least 1973: Annigna Petitpierre-Bernhard [1899-1978], Zurich | Until 1982: (Galerie Nathan, Zurich, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1982-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
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