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Butcher Shop

Candido Portinari1960

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in red tones, rose, blue, yellow, green, earthy, gray and white. Contour lines, colorful and scraped areas. Composition representing woman and girl next to a butcher balloon, probably choosing meat that a butcher is showing them. The woman and the girl is the on the right of the composition, 3/4 directed to the left, next to a board horizontally, serving counter. The woman wears long clothes and a girl, walking. Across the counter, on the left of center of the composition, back butcher, slightly off to the right. Has his arms up and secure with hands piece of meat that is in front of which incidentally are several pieces hanging side by side, including some hares. In the center of the composition stump wood with high ax stuck.

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  • Title: Butcher Shop
  • 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: 1960
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w18.7 x h25.7cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:meat trade, human figure:child:girl, human figure:group, human figure:man, human figure:woman
  • Technique: color crayon, fountain pen
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 4768
  • Function: Study, not used, for illustration of the novel “Terre promise,” from the book “Romans,” by André Maurois
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4790
Projeto Portinari

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