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Head of Mulatto Woman with Blue Background

Candido Portinari1937

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in ochre, blue, earthy, black, gray and white. Resulting rough texture of the support itself. mulatto head turned to the left 3/4 occupying almost the entire area of ​​the composition against blue background. The figure is shifted to the right area of ​​the composition, it has the long face, leather ochre, long hair hanging down, well-defined wire, broken on the right covering the on the left side of the forehead. They do not seem pixains but wavy. It has large almond-shaped eyes, but the on the right is just bypassed. The on the left is well defined and has black iris. Long nose and wide nostrils, thick lips characteristic of the race, rounded chin, seeing itself of the neck. Strong background in blue tone.

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  • Title: Head of Mulatto Woman with Blue Background
  • 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: 1937
  • Location Created: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w38 x h42.5cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: human figure:limbs:head, human figure:woman
  • Technique: fresco
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2750
  • Function: Work executed to decorate a wall in the home of the artist’s parents, Brodowski, SP. The house where the artist’s parents lived, along with the work, was expropriated by the São Paulo state government in 1969 and transformed into a museum in 1970. This is one of the artist’s first three mural paintings; see “Portrait Bust of Mulatto Woman” [FCO 2751] and “Profile of ‘Nonna’” [FCO 2752].
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-656
Projeto Portinari

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