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Bean Harvest

Candido Portinari1955

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in light shades of ochre, gray, green and rose. Thick textures. Composition representing bean processing It depicts in farm lanscape. In the foreground, six men in a circle with kind of whip in the hands beating beans that is at the center. At the bottom on the right three stacked bags. In the background, on the left, crouching woman, facing, looking sieve holding hands. At the bottom, the on the left, angled fence forming a quadrilateral with the angle support of the composition. There are animals suggestion behind the fence. On the right bean field suggestion of not yet harvested, forming a well-defined geometrism.

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  • Title: Bean Harvest
  • 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: 1955
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w53.5 x h35cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating beans, social:workers:farm hand, human figure:group:men, human figure:group:children
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed and dated at bottom right "PORTINARI 55"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 72
  • Inscription: On reverse, inscription by Maria Portinari "ON 995”.. On reverse, labels "MAC – 1979” and "Nº 168 Batendo Arroz Exposição no Pavilhão de Arte Contemporânea de Milão – Itália 21 de março a 21 de abril 1963 Col. João Candido Portinari”.
  • Function: Small-scale color sketch for the panel “Bean Harvest” [FCO 1082]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3395
Projeto Portinari

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