Gottardo Segantini

Private collection, Switzerland

The canvas is slightly buckling. There is light canvas rubbing on the top right margin and corner of the canvas, as well as on the left side of the lower margin of the canvas. Overall in very good condition.
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Gottardo Segantini displays the high valley of the Upper Engadin with the Piz Lagrev in clear autumn light. The steep mountain slopes with gold-coloured larches, the deep blue Lake Sils with its gently waved water and the gnarly sapling in the foreground form a balanced composition. With this landscape painting Gottardo Segantini achieved a colouristic masterpiece connecting symbolism and his father’s divisionism that he had intensively studied. Gottardo Segantini zeigt das Oberengadiner Hochtal mit dem Piz Lagrev im herbstlich klaren Licht. Die steilen Berghänge mit den goldgefärbten Lärchen und der tiefblaue Silsersee mit seiner sanft gewellten Wasseroberfläche sowie der knorrige Jungbaum im Vordergrund verbinden sich zu einer ausgewogenen Bildkomposition. Mit diesem Landschaftsgemälde gelang Gottardo Segantini ein koloristisches Meisterwerk, das die intensive Auseinandersetzung mit dem Divisionisums seines Vaters Giovanni Segantini und dem Symbolismus auf wunderbare Weise verbindet.