The Bad Mothers Explained

The Bad Mothers or The Evil Mothers (Italian: Le cattive madri) is an oil on canvas painting by Giovanni Segantini, created in 1894, now in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, in Vienna. It is the last of four works in which he keeps returning to the motif of women in trees. The other three were The Fruit of Life (1889), The Punishment of Lust (1891) and The Angel of Life (1894), and together, they were his first Symbolist works.^{[1] [2] [3]}

References

1. Beat Stutzer, Roland Wäspe (ed.): Giovanni Segantini. Verlag Gerd Hatje, Ostfildern 1999, S. 51 f.
2. https://www.academia.edu/22555045/_Tra_poesia_e_pittura_il_Nirvana_di_Luigi_Illica_e_Le_cattive_madri_di_Giovanni_Segantini_in_Otto_Novecento_n_2_2014_pp_153_161 Academia.edu: Cecilia Giovanelli, "Tra poesia e pittura: il Nirvana di Luigi Illica e Le cattive madri di Giovanni Segantini" in "Otto/Novecento", No. 2, 2014, pp. 153–161
3. Segantini: il ritorno a Milano, Mazzotta (Skira), pp. 234–235,