Haystacks and Trees

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While his canvases are often heavily painted in dark colors, Segonzac’s drawings, as in this example, evince a quality of light, spontaneity, and elegance. This rural scene is rendered in the most minimal of lines: short staccato daubs to stand in for leaves and blades of grass, and longer lines for horizon, a tapered tree trunk, and bales of hay. There is more unmarked sheet than ink. Segonzac skillfully used the pen nib—pressing harder to widen the ink line and suggest shadow and volume, and pulling back to produce a more brittle line that conveys both light and distance—to convey this scene.

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Title: Haystacks and Trees
Artist: André-Dunoyer de Segonzac (French, Boussy-Saint-Antoine 1884–1974 Paris)
Date: unknown
Medium: Pen and ink on paper
Dimensions: 6 1/2 × 8 1/4 in. (16.5 × 20.9 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020
Object Number: 2021.34.4
Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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