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Abstract
Candido Portinari1941
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in blue and white. Smooth texture, color areas and contour lines. Abstract composition of representation in various shades of blue featuring stronger thick line separating aquareladas areas and areas without paint. In the center area of the composition, grid area filled by diagonally, forming diamonds containing some points. In the center of this area other irregular means also circumvented by strong trait suggesting amoeboid shape. Other graphite thinner lines approximately defining the limits of the areas of aquareladas areas without ink around the support.
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Details
- Title: Abstract
- 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: 1941
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w20 x h14.5cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: non-figurative
- Technique: watercolor, lead pencil , colored pencil
- Signature: Unsigned and undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 1967
- Inscription: On reverse, inscription by Luiz Portinari, the artist’s brother, "Guache de autoria de meu irmão Candido Portinari. Estudo de um painel representando o céu e o mar para o Ministério da Educação no Rio de Janeiro em 1942”; label from Artefact framing house.
- Function: Study, not used, for the tile panel Shells and Seahorses [FCO 1768]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1460
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