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Titolo dell'opera:
Sleeping shepherd
Autore:
Segantini, Giovanni
Object Type:
drawing
Epoca:
XIX - 1893 - 1893
Inventario:
GPB 695
Misure:
Unità di misura: UNR (= Unita' Non Rilevata); Misure mancanti: MNR
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Descrizione:
This is the final sheet in a series of similar subjects tackled on several occasions by Segantini, using different techniques. Charcoal is used here to veil the grainy paper support. Only later does the artist insert the figures of the shepherd and the animals.
Lazzaro Frugone purchased the drawing, through the mediation of his usual dealer Ferruccio Stefani, from the renowned conductor Arturo Toscanini, arousing the envy of the collector Ricci Oddi of Piacenza, who would have liked it for himself. The drawing depicts a young shepherd resting under a tree, next to a sheep.
