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Lot Essay
Annie-Paule Quinsac dates this sheet to 1886-88. During this period Segantini lived in Savognin, in the Engadine north-east of St. Moritz, passing over his business affairs to Alberto Grubicy. The financial security afforded by this arrangement allowed Segantini to develop his experiments with divisionism, seen in the present drawing in the supple lines which build the image from a shimmering pattern of black chalk lines and white space.
The composition derives from Segantini's large painting on canvas prepared with bitumen now in a private collection in Novara, A.-P. Quinsac, op. cit., no. 336. Maria Cristina Gozzoli dates that picture to 1886, shortly before Segantini moved to Savignin (M.C. Gozzoli, L'opera completa di Segantini, Milan, 1973, no. 236), while Quinsac prefers an earlier date due to its more traditional and less overtly divisionist approach, A.-P. Quinsac, op. cit., no. 336.
The composition derives from Segantini's large painting on canvas prepared with bitumen now in a private collection in Novara, A.-P. Quinsac, op. cit., no. 336. Maria Cristina Gozzoli dates that picture to 1886, shortly before Segantini moved to Savignin (M.C. Gozzoli, L'opera completa di Segantini, Milan, 1973, no. 236), while Quinsac prefers an earlier date due to its more traditional and less overtly divisionist approach, A.-P. Quinsac, op. cit., no. 336.