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Boys Swimming

Candido Portinari1955

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in blue and white. Contour lines and areas of color. Composition representing swimming boys, motif repeated throughout the panel, symmetrically, against background in three shades of blue and white forming irregular colored areas. Each tile contains a boy swimming to the right with arms and legs apart and fallen hair to the side. On areas with white background, boys are outlined in blue and on the areas of blue, boys are outlined in white.

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  • Title: Boys Swimming
  • 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: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: human figure:child, non-figurative
  • Technique: tiles
  • Signature: Signed in bottom left corner "C. PORTINARI"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2895
  • Inscription: Dated in inscription in bottom left corner "EXECUÇÃO OSIRARTE SÃO PAULO 1955”
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3713
Projeto Portinari

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