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Cangaceiro

Candido Portinari1952

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in blue tones, ochre, earthy, green, gray, yellow, rose, red, white and black. Texture unidentified. It depicts man half-bust crying against open field lanscape background. The man is on the right in front, has the complexion and clothes in blue tones, white and green. It has straight hair at the time of his neck, and fringe beard; defined facial features, with black fine features in almond eyes from where stone tears. wear shirt with colored geometrical areas and loose brush strokes, and cartridge belts in ochre and green tones, cross the on the right shoulder. On the right tree trunk. Two pita following rows to the bottom perspective. Yellow ground, with red geometrical areas and rose. Blue range.

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  • Title: Cangaceiro
  • 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: 1952
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:Cangaceiro, Nature:landscape:field, human figure:man, human figure:limbs:head
  • Technique: gouache
  • Signature: Signed and dated in middle of bottom edge "Portinari 52"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 4821
  • Function: Illustration no. 18 for the novel “Cangaceiros,” by José Lins do Rego. Cangaceiros Series
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3112
Projeto Portinari

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