1897, Giovanni Segantini, Spring in the Alps -- Getty Museum (Los Angeles)
From the museum label: Spring in the Alps is a luminous hymn to the cyclical revitalization of nature. Executed at the peak of the painter's short career, it features a panoramic Swiss landscape animated by a solemn peasant leading two draft horses, a burly sower, and a bushy-tailed mountain dog. Densely layered and rhythmically patterned strokes of distinct, bright colors capture the crisp, radiant atmosphere of the scene and create a highly tactile, almost tapestry-like surface. The painting, which Segantini ranked among his masterpieces, was commissioned in 1897 by Jacob Stern, a San Francisco collector and a director of Levi Strauss & Co.
1897, Giovanni Segantini, Spring in the Alps -- Getty Museum (Los Angeles)
From the museum label: Spring in the Alps is a luminous hymn to the cyclical revitalization of nature. Executed at the peak of the painter's short career, it features a panoramic Swiss landscape animated by a solemn peasant leading two draft horses, a burly sower, and a bushy-tailed mountain dog. Densely layered and rhythmically patterned strokes of distinct, bright colors capture the crisp, radiant atmosphere of the scene and create a highly tactile, almost tapestry-like surface. The painting, which Segantini ranked among his masterpieces, was commissioned in 1897 by Jacob Stern, a San Francisco collector and a director of Levi Strauss & Co.