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Boy with Sheep

Candido Portinari1955

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in ochre, yellow, blue, earthy, green, gray and black. Thick texture. Boy crouched in the center of the composition, with lamb in her arms. The figure is facing the on the left knee facing forward and the on the right to the right. wears bandit hat on his head, has big eyes and round and brown skin. Clothes closed neck blue shirt with long sleeves with small strokes forming squares; pants represented by strokes forming stripes in shades of blue and gray and are barefoot. Safe in his arms a profile of sheep to the right, his head raised, with the snout leaning on his on the left cheek. The sheep's body is represented by marked brushstrokes, forming rectangles. Background in two shades of yellow: darker to the height of the boy's hips and lighter up. wear spatula to form rectangular and small geometrism at the top and wider at the bottom of the bottom.

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  • Title: Boy with Sheep
  • 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
  • Physical Dimensions: w54 x h65cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Nature:Animals:sheep, human figure:child:boy
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed and dated in bottom right corner "PORTINARI 55"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2262
  • Inscription: On back of frame, labels "[rscratched out]usividades Silveira 19 – Rio” and from Artefact framing house.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3451
Projeto Portinari

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