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Carnauba

Candido Portinari1944

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in green tones, ochre, lilac, earthy, blue, white and gray. Smooth texture. The composition is three figures or carnaubas and forest wood. In the foreground to the left, front man slightly off to the right, physiognomic traits outlined suggesting that this is an Indian. You bare torso vest and pants are bare; in the center, carnauba cut trunk. On the right back man with torso leaning forward and naked torso; wears pants and is barefoot, legs are apart seeing yourself among them a sheet plant tuft-shaped needle that can be carnauba canopy. In the background, on the right, Profile ass to the left side on the back carrying a bundle. At the bottom on the right-hand man of suggestion without defined facial features. Several trees carnaubas of which see only the trunks are scattered throughout the second and third planes and the background that is also divided into regular geometric areas.

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  • Title: Carnauba
  • 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: 1944
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w37 x h41cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating carnaúba palms, social:workers:farm hand, Nature:Animals:donkey, human figure:group:men
  • Technique: gouache , lead pencil , colored pencil, fountain pen
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 55
  • Inscription: Numbers distributed throughout the image. On reverse of cardboard, authentication, and on back of frame, inscription "DN 682,” both by Maria Portinari.
  • Function: Small-scale color sketch for the mural painting “Carnauba” [FCO 1759]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2275
Projeto Portinari

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