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Coffee Harvest

Candido Portinari1960

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in green tones, earthy, gray, white, rose and ochre. Thick texture. Coffee harvest It depicts against geometrized background. In the foreground, on the right, half-length front man, bagging or tying bag of coffee, wearing hat. In the background, on the left, man figure, front, full body, carrying bag of coffee on his back; on your on the left, full length 3/4 man facing right, with covering up her face and rake in the hands hat. On the third level, six-man group, grouped in parallel of three, also working with rakes. All dress shirts, pants and hats and are in trunk inclined forward. Throughout the area of ​​the composition feels the geometrism lines and shades, running through even the figures. Background in geometric areas, farmearthy and green tones.

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  • Title: Coffee 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: 1960
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w17 x h15.3cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating coffee, social:workers:farm hand, human figure:group:men
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 73
  • Inscription: On reverse, inscriptions by Maria Portinari "ON 982” and "Candido Portinari Maria Victoria Portinari”.
  • Function: Small-scale color sketch for the panel “Coffee Harvest” [FCO 2729]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4722
Projeto Portinari

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