Updated 17 April 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Bagpipers of Brianza
| Date | c. 1883-85 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | oil on canvas |
| Size（cm） | 107.2 x 192.2 |
| Inscriptions | Signed lower right: G. Segantini |
| Credit Line | Ex-Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | Arcangeli/Gozzoli 204; Quinsac 292; M964 |
| Category | Paintings |
| Collection Number | P.1962-0004 |
Brianza is located in the north of Italy along the border of Switzerland. It is thought that this work was created during the period when Segantini moved from Milan in 1881 to a town on the shores of Lake Como. Three farm wives and an infant in a stroller listen to two men playing the bagpipes as a hen with several chicks walk by on the earthen ground and a cow eats its fodder in the back right of the composition. The artist was particularly familiar with and frequently depicted the scenes of daily life and nature in the Alpine areas of the Tyrol. Here we can see his realist methods and the detailed brushwork of his later years which reveal an absence of an Impressionist use of light. The scholar researching Segantini, A.-P. Quinsac dates the production of this painting to the period 1883-1885. (Source: Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2009, cat. no. 98)
Provenance
Felice Grondona, Milan; purchased possibly in Milan by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, 1918; private collection; purchased by NMWA, 1963.
Exhibition History
- 1978
- Segantini, Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Kobe, 29 April 1978 - 28 May 1978, cat. no. T. 6, repr.
- 1985
- Permanent exhibition, Ohara Museum of Art, 20 March 1985 - 20 July 1985
- 1987
- Segantini: Mostra antologia, Palazzo delle albere, Trento, 9 May 1987 - 30 June 1987, cat. no. 57, repr.
- 1997
- Expressiveness of Materials, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 17 April 1997 - 22 June 1997, cat. no. 34
- 2017
- [Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017] Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: From the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, 22 April 2017 - 2 July 2017, Akita Museum of Modern Art, 15 July-18 September, cat. no. 24
Bibliography
- 1949
- Segantini, Gottardo. Giovanni Segantini. Zürich, Rascher, 1949, p. 82, pl. 19
- 1967
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 1, 1967, Catalogue of the New Acquisitions. pp. 2-3, no. P-321. repr.
- 1971
- Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1971 (Japanese), no. 94, repr.
- 1973
- Arcangeli, Francesco; Gozzoli, Maria Cristina. L'opera completa di Segantini. Milano, Rizzoli, 1973, no. 204, repr.
- 1975
- Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1975 (Japanese), no. 72, repr.
- 1978
- Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1978 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 76, repr.
- 1979
- The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 256, repr.
- 1982
- Quinsac, Annie-Paule. Segantini: catalogo generale. vol. 1, Milano, Electa, 1982, p. 227, no. 292, repr.
- 1987
- Segantini (exh. cat.). Belli, Gabriella, ed. Milano, Electa, 1987, pp. 146-147, cat. no. 57, col. repr.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1354.
- 2006
- Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2006 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 98, col. repr.
- 2009
- Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2009, no. 98, col. repr.
- 2017
- Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: from the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017 (exh. cat.). Nakada, Asuka, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2017, pp. 49, 139, cat. no. 24, 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. 964, col. repr.