Carlo Domenici (1898-1981) - Maremma

Important painting from a collection

Carlo Domenici
(1898 - 1981)

“ Maremma “

Oil on panel - signed work / accompanied by authentication

Coming from an important private collection and previously from an art gallery
Rare work ideal for a prestigious collection

With a certificate of authenticity and provenance in accordance with the law

Framed size: 51 x 45 cm in a contemporary frame
Panel: 24 x 18 cm


Carlo Domenici, post-M Tanzist painter? (note: translation keeps meaning) painter post-Macchiaiolo, was born in Livorno in 1898; at 13 he enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, debuting in 1913 at the exhibition of the Society “Amatori e Cultori” of Fine Arts in Rome.
It is likely on this occasion that Pietro Mascagni encouraged him to purchase the painting “Venezia di Livorno.”
He held his first solo show in Livorno.
He became part of the Gruppo Labronico, a cenacle of artists formed within the Fattori circle, and, in 1979, succeeded Renato Natali as President.
In 1926 he exhibited at the Venice Biennale; simultaneously he organized a solo show of 40 works at the Milano Pesaro Gallery.
In 1950 he was among those invited to the Fifty Years of Tuscan Painting exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi.
He divided his time between Florence and Elba Island, to which he felt increasingly tied for its natural beauty, precious sources of his inspiration.
Due to this strong attachment to the island he founded, in 1946, the “Group of Elban Artists” and established in Portoferraio the “Llewelyn Lloyd Prize.”
Although developing his own style based on chromatic variations, Domenici pursued the figurative tradition of the Tuscan masters of the second half of the nineteenth century, arguing that the Academy, without the lesson of Fattori, Lega, Signorini and other painters of that generation, would have served him little.
He mounted two highly successful solo exhibitions at the Cocchini Gallery in Livorno (1958) and at the Pallavicini Gallery in Florence (1973).
Carlo Domenici died in Portoferraio in 1981.

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