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Arab and Dromedary
Candido Portinari1956
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Intersecting lines. Dromedary and two Arabs in a farm lanscape suggesting the center, Profile dromedary on the left, tied up in stocks stuck in the ground. To the right of the pole, Arab standing on a kind of board, profile to the right. In the background, on the left, tractor suggestion and on the right, Arabic near a flock of goats that are under the shade of trees. The entire composition is dashed.
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Details
- Title: Arab and Dromedary
- 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: 1956
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w38 x h24cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: social:working scenes:farming, social:workers:farm hand, Nature:Animals:dromedary, human figure:man
- Technique: India ink pen
- Signature: Signed and dated in bottom left corner "Portinari 56"
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 250
- Inscription: On reverse, authentication and inscriptions by Maria Portinari "DN 606” and "Nº 750”.
- Function: Work executed in Brazil upon the artist's return from Israel.. Israel Series
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4006
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