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On Display

Permanent collection

Giovanni Segantini

Arco, 1858 - Schafberg, 1899

The Sheepshearing

Date 1883-84
Materials and Techniques oil on canvas
Size(cm) 117 x 216.5
Inscriptions Signed lower right: G. Segantini
Credit Line Ex-Matsukata Collection
Standard ref. Quinsac 358A; M963
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.2007-0002

Provenance

Felice Grondona, Milan; purchased possibly in Milan by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, 1918; pledged by Matsukata to save his business, Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd., Kobe and then seized by Fujimoto Bill Broker Bank, Osaka, 1927; 1st Matsukata sale, Tokyo, 13–30 March 1928, addendum; 5th Matsukata sale, Tokyo, 6–20 February 1934, lot 56, repr.; purchased at that sale by a previous owner, Hyōgo (Japan), 1934–2008; purchased by NMWA, 2008.

Exhibition History

1885
Exposition Universelle, Section des Beaux-Arts, Antwerpen, 0  1885 - 0  1885
1886
Societé degli Amatori e Cultori delle Belle Arti in Roma, LVII Esposizione, Roma, 0  1886 - 0  1886
1887
Esposizione Nazionale di Belle Arti della Città di Venezia, Venezia, 0  1887 - 0  1887
1888
Italian Exhibiton: Alberto Grubicy's Picture Gallery, London, 0  1888 - 0  1888
1928
(The 1st) Exhibition of Matsukata Coll., Tokyo-fu Bijyutsukan, 13 March 1928 - 30 March 1928, no. 160.
1934
The 5th Exhibition of Matsukata Coll., Tokyo-fu Bijyutsukan, 6 February 1934 - 20 February 1934, no. 56, repr.
1978
Exhibition Segantini Japan 1978, Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, 29 April 1978 - 28 May 1978, T. 20.
2011
Segantini: Light and mountains, Sagawa Art Museum, 16 July 2011 - 21 August 2011, cat. no. 9, col. repr., Shizuoka City Museum, 3 September 2011 - 23 October 2011
2019
The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey: Upon the 60th Anniversary of the NMWA, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11 June 2019 - 23 September 2019, cat. no. 48, col. repr.
2022
In Dialogue with Nature - from Friedrich, Monet and Van Gogh to Richter, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 4 June 2022 - 11 September 2022, cat. no. 82

Bibliography

1899
Levi, Primo. Il Primo e il Secondo Segantini. Rivista d'Italia. III, novembre, 1899
1901
Villari, Luigi. Giovanni Segantini: Story of his life. London, 1901
1902
Servaes, Franz. Giovanni Segantini: Sein Leben und sein Werk. Wien, 1902
1923
Segantini, Gottardo. Giovanni Segantini: La sua vita e le sue opere. Milano, 1923
1925
Montandon, Marcel. Segantini. Bielefeld/Leipzig, 1925
1945
Barbantini, Nino. Giovanni Segantini. Venezia, 1945 (Artisti veneti dell’ottocento e del novecento, 2)
1956
Nicodemi, Giorgio. Giovanni Segantini. Milano, 1956
1962
Budigna, L. G. Segantini. Milano, 1962
1969
Fiori, Teresa. Il Divisionismo in Italia. Arte Illustrata. gennaio, 1969
1973
Gozzoli, Maria Cristina. L’opera completa di Segantini. Milano, Rizzoli, 1973
1978
Giovanni Segantini: Zeichnungen (exh. cat.). Quinsac, Annie-Paule, ed. Kunsthaus Zürich, 19 January - 12 March 1978. Compagnia del Disegno, Mailand, 28 March - 30 April 1978. Villa Stuck München, 10 May - 10 July 1978. Zürich, 1978, pp. 21, 46, fig. 20.
1978
Exhibition Segantini Japan 1978. Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo ed. [Kobe], Kobe Shimbun, 1978, T. 20, p. 149
1978
Quinsac, Annie-Paule. Invio alle grandi mostre. Bolaffi Arte. marzo, 1978
1982
Quinsac, Annie-Paule. Segantini: Catalogo generale. Milano, Editoriale Electa, 1982, vol., 1, no. 358A, p. 274.
1990
The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1352.
2009
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 42 (Apr. 2007-Mar. 2008), 2009, Mina Oya. New Acquisitions. pp. 16-18, List of New Acquisitions. p. 58, repr.
2010
Frank Brangwyn (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 23 February - 30 May 2010. Tokyo, The Yomiuri Shimbun, 2010, p. 71, fig. 6.
2011
Segantini: Light and Mountains(exh. cat.). [Tokyo], NHK Promotions, [2011], cat. no. 9, col. repr.
2013
Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 104, col. repr.
2018
The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 1: Paintings, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2018, cat. no. 963, col. repr.
2019
The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of the Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2019, pp. 120, 123, 357, cat. no. 48, col. repr.
2022
In Dialogue with Nature: from Friedrich, Monet and Van Gogh to Richter (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi; Shinfuji, Atsushi; Yomiuri Shimbun, Museum Exhibition Department, eds. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2022, pp. 160, 261, cat. no. 82, col. repr.

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