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Cangaceiro

Candido Portinari1955

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Quick intersecting lines and broken lines. Composition representing cangaceiro bust facing, holding a rifle against white background. The figure wears distinctive hat, shaped semicircle with three stars, suggesting that leather. The bandit has a round face, wide apart eyes pulled up, facing forward revealing expression hard, wide and flat nose, straight and closed lips and square jaw, watching the hat strap around her. Using long sleeve shirt with the neck scarf knot, bandoliers crossed chest and a horizontal passing through the bust. The on the right arm is along the body and the on the left is bent up looking up hand holding a carbine that is vertical.

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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: 1955
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w13 x h17cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:Cangaceiro, human figure:man
  • Technique: India ink pen
  • Signature: Signed and dated at left edge "Portinari 55"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1794
  • Notes: Support affixed to cardboard.. Work destroyed in the 1980s in a fire at owner’s residence.
  • Inscription: On reverse, inscription "nº 354”.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3364
Projeto Portinari

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