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Boys Playing with Sticks

Candido Portinari1959

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Parallel lines and shading. Group of six boys playing with sticks, occupying the central area of ​​the composition. The boy is standing center, front, legs apart, on the right arm extended holding a knife and on the left arm raised to his mouth. At the bottom on the left, 3/4 to the right facing boy holding rod up to the right shoulder, the tip having what appears to be a bag, a on the left arm extended forward. Shortly after, another boy from the front, with legs apart, arms up, holding stick up to the forehead. To the right of center, boyish face with raised arms and legs apart, looking up; more to the boy walking towards the front wooden logs stacked in front, near the bottom edge of the support and at his side, curved front of boy with head down and arms outstretched like pick up sticks on the ground. On the right side margin of the support about delimiting high planting. In the background, on the left, two women and a child walking to the left.

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  • Title: Boys Playing with Sticks
  • 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
  • Physical Dimensions: w23 x h24cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Brazilian Culture:children's games:play:balancing sticks, human figure:child:girl, human figure:child:boy, human figure:group:children
  • Technique: etching , aquatint
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 810
  • Function: Original illustration no. 7 for the book “Menino de engenho,” by José Lins do Rego
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4606
Projeto Portinari

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