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Boy with Sheep
Candido Portinari1959
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition unidentified tones. Contour lines and loose. It depicts boy and lamb in the center of the composition. The boy is facing, has broad face, facial features represented and safe in the arms a ram which is to head to the left. Behind them, on the left, a skull mounted on a gun, holding a sickle. In the background, hills and two towers, one on the left and one on the right.
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Details
- 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: 1959
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: Nature:Animals:sheep, human figure:child:boy
- Technique: medium unidentified
- Signature: Signed and dated in bottom right corner “Portinari Rio 959”
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 4853
- Function: Illustration for cover of the book O canhão e a foice, by Pinchas E. Lapide
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4660
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