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Coffee Harvest

Candido Portinari1960

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in tones roses, ochre, blue, green, yellow, gray, orange, earthy, violet, white and black. Smooth, thick, marked strokes. Composition representing coffee processing. Geometrized areas blend background and figures, highlighting heads, feet and hands of workers. In the foreground, on the left, a man carrying coffee, standing facing forward with legs apart and holding a sack on his back; facial features slightly suggested; he wears light sleeveless shirt, pants above the ankles and is bare feet. In the center, a worker profile to the right legs bent, upper body leaning forward, head bowed wearing a brimmed up hat, barefoot and wearing yellow clothes. He holds, to his right, a squeegee, which suggests he is collecting coffee beans. On the right, ahalf-body worker facing forward, facial features suggested, using wide-brimmed hat and light colored long sleeve shirt; he has the arms apart and appears to be closing a bag of coffee that lies ahead. From the background to the backend, a coffee plantation is represented, diagonally from the left to the right, where six men are working, forming two rows of three people each, one in front of another. Everyone wears hats, have their trunks inclined , legs apart and hold rakes, with which they spread the beans for drying.

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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: w260.5 x h229cm 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: Signed and dated at bottom right "PORTINARI 60"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2729
  • Notes: Support spliced vertically.
  • Function: Work executed to decorate the headquarters of the BankBoston, São Paulo, SP.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4723
Projeto Portinari

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