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Carrying Coffee
Candido Portinari1937
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Predominance of contour lines. Man figure study, outlined to the knees, carrying bag of coffee against plain background. The figure is slightly turned to the left, you have the head bag of coffee which holds in his hands. Face with facial features sketch, naked torso, lightly marked waist, legs sketched.
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Details
- Title: Carrying Coffee
- 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: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w45 x h60cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: social:working scenes:carrying coffee, social:workers:carrier, human figure:man
- Technique: charcoal
- Signature: Unsigned and undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 129
- Inscription: On reverse, authentication and inscriptions by Maria Portinari "DN 421” and "Nº 128”.
- Function: Study for the mural painting Coffee [FCO 1755]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-727
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