Girl Knitting in Savognin
Print detail, actual size
To scale 31 x 21 in on the wall
Representative Hand-applied gesso embellishment
About the Artwork
Segantini painted Girl Knitting in Savognin during his years in the Swiss village of Savognin, where he had settled in 1886 after a formative period in Brianza, northern Italy. By 1888 he was moving decisively away from the tonal realism of his early training toward the luminous divided-stroke technique that would define his mature work, placing him at the intersection of Post-Impressionism and Divisionism. The painting belongs to a sustained series of images of rural women at work: spinning, knitting, nursing, pasturing livestock in the mountain light. These were not nostalgic visions of peasant life but serious pictorial investigations into how Alpine light falls on wool, grass and human skin. Segantini showed regularly at international exhibitions in Vienna, Munich and London during this decade, and his Alpine subjects attracted both critical attention and collectors who saw in them a rigorous counterpart to the Impressionist plein-air practice then dominant in France. The picture now stands as a document of the precise moment his technique crystallised.
Product Specifications
- Finished size
- 31 x 21 in
- Frame
- Gold, premium resin, mitred
- Canvas
- Heavyweight Fredrix poly/cotton
- Finish
- Hand-applied gesso embellishment
- Inks
- Archival HP Latex, 100-year colorfastness
- Stretcher
- Solid poplar, kiln dried
- Hanging
- Wire and dust cover fitted
- Item
- 1970621
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Care & Hanging
Every piece arrives ready to hang: wire hardware pre-installed, kraft paper dust cover, gallery-finished corners.
Hanging: Every piece ships with hanging hardware.
Care: Dust lightly with a soft, dry cloth as needed. Avoid direct sunlight to preserve the colors. Avoid hanging in high-humidity environments (bathrooms with active showers). Our finish is durable but is not waterproof.
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