Haystacks and Trees

unknown
Not on view
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • 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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