Oil painting on canvas cm. 25 x 20, framed 37 x 32.5 Signed lower right Plinio Nomellini, with attached appraisal Plinio Nomellini was a painter among the main exponents of the divisionist current between the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of He attended the municipal school of Arts and Crafts in Livorno and the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where he came into contact with painters such as Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega and Telemaco Signorini belonging to the Macchiaioli group. In 1890 he moved to Genoa where the Albaro group, engaged in a painting with a socialist and revolutionary stamp, came to life. For his ideas and anarchist demonstrations he was arrested and imprisoned numerous times. In 1898 he participated in the Turin Exposition and from 1899 regularly at the Venice Biennial. In 1919 he moved permanently to Florence where he remained until his death. In the twenties he joined Fascism which had an important repercussion in his pictorial activity. His works can be found in various Italian museums and palaces such as the Genoa Chamber of Commerce and the Ravenna Academy. In the proposed work, the artist expresses his adhesion to the current divisionist, a purely Italian technique that has origins in French Neo-Impressionism and which is characterized by the separation of colors into single points or lines that interact with each other in an optical sense.