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Boy Running
Candido Portinari1943
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Fast, parallel, overlapping and scraped lines. Study representing child occupying the central area of the composition against background composed of parallel dotted lines. The figure is from the front, slightly turned to the left, has spiky hair, face revealing serious expression, has legs bent, and the on the left knee is resting on the floor. His arms are raised and has flat hands, with the on the left arm hangs a circular volume. Background represented by parallel dotted lines in different directions.
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Details
- Title: Boy Running
- 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: 1943
- Location Created: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w17 x h21.5cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: human figure:child:boy
- Technique: lead pencil
- Signature: Unsigned and undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 3390
- Notes: Support affixed to cardboard.
- Inscription: On reverse, inscriptions by Maria Portinari "Nº 447 Desenho de autoria de Candido Portinari, autenticado por Maria Victoria Portinari,” "Cubas p[?]” and "LIX”.
- Function: Study for the engraving On Board [FCO 840]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1945
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