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Boy with Sheep

Candido Portinari1961-04-19

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black, blue, yellow, red and white. Few contour lines, angular features, dotted and shaded. Boy sitting on the bench with lamb in her arms, occupying almost the entire stand area. Front boy, head tilted to the left and down toward the animal's head in her lap. Has short black hair represented by angular features, shadowed face on the right, slightly suggested facial features, arms wrapped around the ram and legs apart. Wears shirt suggested by yellow shading and pants rolled up above his knees, barefoot. Sheep is lying profile to the left, has well-marked eye, ear and fallen blue shading body. Two parallel straight lines vertically pass through the center of the composition to the head of the child.

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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: 1961-04-19
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w18 x h27cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Nature:Animals:sheep, human figure:child:boy
  • Technique: lead pencil , colored pencil, fountain pen
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2896
  • Notes: Support affixed to yellow cardboard.
  • Inscription: Signed and dated in dedication in bottom right corner "Para o Manuel com o abraço pela [sic] dia de hoje do velho amigo PORTINARI 19-IV-961”. On reverse, inscription by Manuel Bandeira "A Maria Nazareth e Luis Carlos com a bênção do padrinho Manuel Rio 18.4.1966”; framing tape from Artefact framing house.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4804
Projeto Portinari

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