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Composition in tones earthy, ochre, green, gray, orange, blue, white and black. Smooth texture, marked strokes. Figures represented by deliberate significant deformation. It depicts screening and bagging coffee. From the left to the right, curved front figure with his head down holding a sieve, center, woman standing in front, with his arms raised holding a sieve and legs apart, dressed sort of long robe and profile crooked man on the left, head up looking before him, arms straight down as if holding something and has legs apart. Basically, distinguished open bag, cell five bags with a leaning ladder and hoe. Slightly geometrized background.

Details

  • 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: 1948
  • Physical Dimensions: w55 x h47.5cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating coffee, social:workers:female settler, social:workers:farm hand, human figure:man, human figure:woman
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed and dated at bottom right edge "PORTINARI 948"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 3127
  • Inscription: On back of frame, label "Coleção ‘Raul Paletto’ Autor Candido Portinari. Título da Obra Peneirando Café genero de dimensões”.
  • Function: Illustration for the Silva Araújo-Roussel Laboratories pamphlet about the drug Codoforme.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2680

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