Giovanni Segantini, possibly inspired by literary sources,…
1891 CE
Orphaned at eight and raised by peasants in the Italian Alps as a herdsman, he had spent long hours of solitude in drawing.
The local authorities had noticed his work and sent him to art school in Milan, where he lived with relatives.
Around 1880 he had been discovered by the art dealer Vittore Grubicy de Dragon.
Grubicy had encouraged him to paint with the Divisionist technique and had sponsored his participation in local and international exhibitions; James Ensor and the late Vincent van Gogh and are among his admirers.
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Giovanni Segantini: The Punishment of Lust (1891); oil on canvas 99 cm (38.9 ″) x172.8 cm (68 ″). Walker Art Gallery
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