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Boys with Slingshots
Candido Portinari1959
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in blue tones, green, red, orange, ochre, white and black. Texture unidentified. It depicts boys playing with slingshots against geometrized background. In the center of the composition, six boys with slingshots in hand shooting up. The on the left is turned to the right and the on the right is facing left, almost back. The bodies of the figures merge with the background geometrismos. Background with irregular geometric areas.
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Details
- Title: Boys with Slingshots
- 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: w52 x h65cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: Brazilian Culture:children's games:play:slingshot, human figure:group:children
- Technique: oil
- Signature: Signed and dated at bottom right "PORTINARI 959"
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 4295
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4453
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