La pineta

The pine woods theme was recurrent in Carrà’s depictions of the Tuscan seaside. Here it is developed in a particular composition. At the centre is a dense group of Mediterranean pines that block out the entire upper part of the canvas, the slim trunks filtering the viewer’s gaze to the houses in the background. The work, from 1932, came in the midst of the artist’s “return to order”, characterized by essential representation of volumes and a palette of sharply contrasting colours, here reds and greens.