Emilio Longoni, White lake and black lake, Bernina Pass, Oil on panel
Estimate €60,000–80,000
Like his compatriots and friends Giovanni Segantini and Gaetano Previati, whom he met during his artistic training at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, Emilio Longoni adopted, in the early 1890s, the precepts of divisionist landscape painting. He is considered one of the major figures of Italian Divisionism, carrying on the movement until the 1920s. Longoni offers here a characteristic divisionist landscape: a panoramic view, in which he concentrates his attention on the atmospheric effects as well as on the peculiar divisionist technique, fragmented and linear brushstrokes, which animate the surface of the canvas. The two lakes on the Bernina Pass, famous for their contrasting blue tones, one dark, the other pale, seem to vibrate in the nebulous light of the landscape.
