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Boys Swimming

Candido Portinari1955

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Curved lines, dotted lines and shaded parallel. Boys group representation swimming in the river with the lanscape background with hills and cattle grazing. In the foreground, near the river bank, three naked boys back: the on the left, with his arms raised undressing mind; the center waving his on the right arm to his companion in front and the third curved 3/4 to on the left, arms outstretched toward the clothes on the floor. Among boys are scattered some vegetation tufts. In the background, river represented by broad band with parallel sinuous lines and concentric circles into the water seeing in the center of the composition, child swim to the left and on the right front boy with only apparent half-bust, waving for companion standing on edge. The children are represented by dotted shading and parallel and the facial features have slightly sketched. Into the river are seen scattered small fish. On the third level, representation of high hills with grazing cattle and the upper on the right corner, taller vegetation.

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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: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w48 x h34.3cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Brazilian Culture:children's games:play, Nature:Animals:ox, Nature:landscape:field, human figure:group:children
  • Technique: lead pencil , colored pencil
  • Signature: Signed and dated in bottom left corner "Portinari 55"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1925
  • Notes: Support affixed to hardboard.
  • Inscription: In bottom left corner, embossed mark of the paper "Shoellers Hammer”.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3466
Projeto Portinari

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