Loading
Children’s Games
Candido Portinari1941
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in blue and white. Predominance of colored areas. Children It depicts playing against checkerboard and dotted background. In the foreground, cue in hand five girls, side by side horizontally. In the background, to the left, two girls playing ball and on the right, two more jumping rope. The figures are surrounded by winding line.
Show lessRead more
Details
- Title: Children’s Games
- 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: 1941
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w18 x h9cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: Brazilian Culture:children's games:play:ring-around-a-rosy, Brazilian Culture:children's games:play:skipping rope, Brazilian Culture:children's games:toys:ball, human figure:group:children
- Technique: gouache
- Signature: Stamped signature at top left corner "PORTINARI*". Undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 565
- Notes: Support affixed to cardboard.
- Inscription: On reverse, inscriptions by Maria Portinari "Desenho de autoria de Candido Portinari, autenticado por Maria Victoria Portinari,” "Nº 544” and "DN 174”.
- Function: Sketch for a tile panel for the façade of the Palácio Gustavo Capanema, Rio de Janeiro, RJ; not executed
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1448
Get the app
Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more
