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Boy
Candido Portinari1955
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition of earthy and ochre (discolored and darkened paper ink). Quick strokes. Composition representing boy planting banana and occupying almost the entire support. Head downtown, hand hand, bare feet.
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Details
- Title: Boy
- 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
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w19 x h24cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: Brazilian Culture:children's games:play:handstand, social:peace, human figure:child:boy
- Technique: fountain pen
- Signature: Signed at bottom right "Portinari". Undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 5020
- Function: Sketch for the panel �Peace� [FCO 3798]. Gift of the artist when the group from the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro visited his atelier, where he was executing the panels �War� [FCO 3799] and �Peace� [FCO 3798]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3675
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