Carlo Domenici - (Livorno 1897 - Portoferraio 1981) - Cart with oxenoil on panel, 35x50cm With frame 70x55cm signed in pencil in the upper right corner. This type of signature dates from the 1920s to the 1930s. Carlo Domenici (Livorno 1897 - Elba Island 1981) is one of the major representatives of the Livorno group of the Labronici, founded in 1920 at Caffè Bardi, a historical meeting place for members of the movement. The artists of the group share a style attributable to post-Macchiaioliism; the subjects represented (the Tuscan countryside and seascapes, peasants and animals at work...) also demonstrate how the Labronici shared with the Macchiaioli forefathers the love for their land. Carlo Domenici, after an academic training, devoted himself to Macchia painting. Scenes of rural life in which naturalism and chromatic pleasure merge. Tuscany is always the protagonist of his landscapes, in particular three areas of his land: the Maremma, with its farmers and animals working in the fields, close in style and technique to the great Fattori; bucolic masterpieces, in which the warm tones of the countryside blend with the hard features of the men and women who harvest or thresh the wheat. Elba Island and its seascapes; paintings in which the atmosphere and sea breeze are captured through vibrant tones and vibrant lights. Finally, his beloved Livorno, described with precision of detail and strong emotionality. In 1940 he moved to Florence but did not abandon the subjects dear to him, often returning to his places of origin to portray his countryside. In 1970 he settled permanently on the Island of Elba and in 1976 a stroke paralysed his right arm, preventing him from continuing his pictorial career with constancy. What definitively threw Domenici into dejection was the death of his wife. The only great satisfaction of the last years of his life was his appointment as President of the Labronico Group in 1979, a position he held until the year of his death, 1981.