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A Force Enters the Village to Reestablish Order

Candido Portinari1944

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Contour lines and straight. Man watching through a window a street where you see a trained battalion. The figure is the on the right of the composition, seeing only his head back toward the on the left 3/4. Has wavy hair combed back, on the left eye without iris setting and nose represented by a triangle, suggests be using a stiff collar clothes, standing. The window where the figure is has splashed curtains of tiny dots. In the background, to the left, forming a square battalion; the soldiers wear top hat and suggest having crossed bandoliers chest. Straight lines in perspective for background suggest the limit of the street and the beginning of the buildings, and to the right, we see even windows. On the floor in front of the battalion three small spots and on the right, short stake stuck in the ground.

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  • Title: A Force Enters the Village to Reestablish Order
  • 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: 1944
  • Location Created: Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w19 x h16cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: human figure:group:men
  • Technique: India ink pen
  • Signature: Signed at bottom right edge "Portinari". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1307
  • Inscription: Inscription in bottom left corner "25”
  • Function: Illustration no. 24 for the book “O alienista,” by Machado de Assis
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2240
Projeto Portinari

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