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Animals

Candido Portinari1941

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Smoky rooms, shaded and contour lines. Composition representing tamanduá, pig-to-kill and deer in pens, as if they were in a zoo. In the foreground, on the left, pork-eating fox, profile to the right, inside surrounded by plump sticks. In the background, on the right, adjoining fenced, giant anteater, profile on the left. On the left, draft three children would be looking at the anteater. Further down, on the left, deer lying on the paws and his head raised, also closed enclosure. In the background, hills across the entire width of the holder.

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  • Title: Animals
  • 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
  • Physical Dimensions: w29.4 x h26.6cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Nature:Animals:wild pig, Nature:Animals:anteater, Nature:Animals:deer, Nature:landscape:field, human figure:group:children
  • Technique: oil , lead pencil
  • Signature: Stamped signature in bottom right corner "PORTINARI*". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 4597
  • Inscription: On reverse, inscription "Maria Rosa Please return to Junior Books, Doubleday”.
  • Function: Illustration no. 10 for the book “Maria Rosa,” by Vera Kelsey
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1509
Projeto Portinari

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