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Boy with Sheep

Candido Portinari1954

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in gray, green, ochre, yellow, orange, rose, earthy, blue, white and black. Smooth, slightly thicker in the figure, marked and spatula strokes. Composition representing boy sitting on the floor holding a baby goat and occupying the central area of ​​the composition; floor represented in shades gray with a large clump on the left of the figure, a mountain in the background, on the right and sky indicated in a tone of blue-green. The boy is sitting in front, has fallen head slightly to the left and toward the on the right, toward the young goat. It has dark and short hair, facial features suggested, stained surfaces and thin neck. Is flexed with the on the right arm, holding her hand to the back of young goat's neck and on the left the front, as if the caress. wears short-sleeved shirt, composed of geometrical areas in yellow tones and pants rolled up, also consisting of geometrized in ochre, orange and yellow. It is with the on the right leg bent and the foot flat on the floor on the left stretched on the ground, revealing the sole of the foot in bluish tones, as if dirty. The young goat is standing with his back, turned toward the boy. With the head is slightly raised is displayed coat tail and ears and suggested in light and dark tones, giving volume to the animal body. The floor is indicated in gray tones, seeing himself on the left a huge clump whose center comes out a flower and boulders, through the boy's legs. The floor is demarcated in shades earthy, suggesting projected shadows of the thicket and the boy's body, from a light falling from from the on the left. On the horizon, cue elevations, two smaller on the left and further on the right. The sky is green-bluish high.

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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: 1954
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w64 x h54cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Nature:Animals:sheep, Nature:landscape:field, human figure:child:boy
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed and dated at bottom right "PORTINARI 54"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 3863
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3310
Projeto Portinari

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