Loading
Coffee Carriers
Candido Portinari1956
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Contour lines, dotted and shaded. It depicts workers holding coffee bags occupying the entire area of the composition. From the left to the right: half-length front man, with his head down, arms folded holding bag at his back; crouching man holding with both hands the edges of an open bag; man standing, curved profile to the left, holding the edges, a bag already closed and suggestion about lattice.
Show lessRead more
Details
- Title: Coffee Carriers
- 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: 1956
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w34 x h13cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating coffee, social:working scenes:carrying coffee, social:workers:carrier, human figure:group:men
- Technique: lead pencil
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 1562
- Inscription: Signed and dated in dedication at bottom right "Para o amigo Callado com o abraço de Portinari 56”
- Function: Study for the panel Transportation of Coffee [FCO 3019]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4082
Get the app
Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more
