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Coffee Harvest

Candido Portinari1956

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Contour lines and shading. It depicts group of people working in a coffee plantation. The group seems to be picking coffee. In the foreground to the left, back, man, with wide-brimmed hat, the man on the right stop climbing a ladder that is in front. This figure is with the head tilted back. In the background, two women, one to the left, in front, with bangs and the back center. Both women wear scarf species in the head. The two women and hat man seem to hold a rope that was attached on top. Bottom on the left filled with leaves and fruits and on the right seem tree trunks.

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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: 1956
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating coffee, social:working scenes:farming, social:workers:farm hand, human figure:group, human figure:man, human figure:woman
  • Technique: lead pencil
  • Signature: Signed in the center of the bottom edge "PORTINARI". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 6181
  • Function: Study for the painting "Coffee Harvest" [FCO 3020]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-5085
Projeto Portinari

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