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Cocoa Harvest

Candido Portinari1948

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition unidentified tones. Tangled and contour lines. It depicts peasants working on the cocoa harvest. The figures are represented facial features, wear short-sleeved shirts, pants and are barefoot. On the left, front man, slightly off to the right, kneeling, holding knife on top, with the on the right hand and secure cocoa on the left. In front of him, cocoa mound. Ago, another man crouching in front, holding a basket full of fruit, playing on top of the mound. In the background, leaning man in profile to the right, holding basket upon cocoa mound.

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  • Title: Cocoa Harvest
  • 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: 1948
  • Physical Dimensions: w50 x h35cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating cocoa, social:workers:peasant, human figure:group:men
  • Technique: medium unidentified
  • Signature: Signed and dated at bottom right "Portinari 1948"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 5135
  • Function: Illustration for the September page of Panair do Brasil's 1955 calendar.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2673
Projeto Portinari

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