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Giovanni Segantini / The Evil Mothers

The Evil Mothers

1894 · Oil on canvas

A woman who denied motherhood is condemned to hang frozen from the branches of a barren tree, Segantini's harsh Symbolist punishment for unnatural mothers.

MovementSSymbolism
LocationVienna, Austria
Genreallegory
Dimensions105 × 200 cm

Why it matters

Segantini returned again and again to the motif of women in trees; this is the last of Segantini's four works on this motif, his first Symbolist works.

Did you know?

  • It was painted in 1894.
  • The series began with The Fruit of Life in 1889.
  • It is in the Belvedere in Vienna.

Based on the Wikipedia article The Bad Mothers (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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