drawing

Luigi Frugone

GAM 1562

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 180; Larghezza: 130

The canvas presents a charcoal sketch of two "Lovers" made by Giovanni Segantini and formally related to two similar young people in the well-known 1896 painting "Love at the Source of Life" (Milan, Galleria d'Arte Moderna).
"The playful and carefree love of the female, and the thoughtful love of the male, bound together by the natural impulse of youth and spring", as Segantini wrote in 1896. Apparently far removed from the painter's expressive methods and exuberant colours precisely because they were unfinished, the two figures were perhaps made for the Symbolist painting ‘The Earthly Paradise’, which was interrupted by the artist's sudden death.
The museum also houses a beautiful charcoal drawing by Segantini, the "Sleeping Shepherd" from around 1893, from the collection of the famous conductor Arturo Toscanini, who bought it during a sale of works belonging to the painter Vittore Grubicy De Dragon who, with his brother Alberto, had been the reference market for the Italian Divisionists.