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Wild Beast
Candido Portinari1955
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Fast and firm strokes. Feline study lying on its hind legs stretched with the front. The animal is diagonally from the right to on the left and front to back, it is with the head forward and open jaws, seeing the four canines.
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Details
- Title: Wild Beast
- Creator Lifespan: 1903-12-29 - 1962-12-06
- Creator Nationality: Brazilian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Creator Birth Place: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brazil
- Date: 1955
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w15 x h12cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: Nature:Animals:wild animal
- Technique: lead pencil
- Signature: Unsigned and undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 312
- Notes: Support affixed to cardboard.
- Inscription: On reverse, rough sketch of bird possibly by the artist; authentication and inscriptions by Maria Portinari "DN 437” and "Nº 815”.
- Function: Study for the panel War [FCO 3799]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3638
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