Made in 1906 The melancholy of the sun represents a crucial step in the artist's path, who approached Divisionism around 1899 after visiting the posthumous exhibition dedicated to Giovanni Segantini - who has just passed away. Slightly arched at the top, the painting frames the lower half of a tree silhouetted against the sun against the backdrop of an uninhabited landscape. Symmetrical, essential and rigorous, to return the image of a sleeping nature, the composition is skilfully moved by the divergent thrusts created by the branch that departs from the stem, curving to the left before rushing towards the sky, and from the perspective of the plowed soil on the proscenium fleeing to the right, accompanying the distant gaze, among other fields that are lost in the mist of the horizon. Even the chromatic structure is of Pellizzian inspiration in the rendering of the rays of the winter sun that radiate like a halo from the supple but stripped trunk. With an experimental technique, which alternates areas of division and impasto and uses overlapping glazes to achieve the desired luminous effect, La melancholia del sole is at the height of the divisionist phase of Maggi, which ended, except for sporadic returns, in 1912 with the rescission agreements with the Grubicy Art Gallery.