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Abstract
Candido Portinari1954
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in gray and white. makeup area completely filled with indefinite forms in shades of gray, with no ink space where white paper acts as color. Rounded forms, sinuous lines, chiaroscuro game. Broad strokes, large shapes bounded by solid line in dark shade of gray or by interference from other juxtaposed tone.
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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: 1954
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w27 x h14cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: non-figurative
- Technique: gouache
- Signature: Unsigned and undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 914
- Function: Project, not used, for print on fabric. The print was purportedly used for curtains in the home of Jane and Mem Sardinha Xavier da Silveira, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3352
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