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Couple
Candido Portinari1959
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Fast, parallel and tangled lines. Composition representing a couple standing suggested by parallel lines. The figure on the right is a little earlier than the other, suggests be facing, you face with indicated facial features and legs apart. The on the left figure is a little behind and is 3/4 toward the on the right, has indicated face with facial features and suggests to be looking toward the first figure. Dashed covering the support baffles composition.
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Details
- Title: Couple
- 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: 1959
- Location Created: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w16 x h20cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: human figure:couple
- Technique: lead pencil
- Signature: Unsigned and undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 1986
- Inscription: On reverse, inscriptions by Maria Portinari "Desenho de autoria de Candido Portinari, autenticado por Maria Victoria Portinari” and "DN 539”.
- Function: Study for the engraving The First Kiss [FCO 838]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4506
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