Loading

Coffee Havest

Candido Portinari1957

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black tones, white, yellow, blue and red. Contour lines and tangled. It depicts Coffee colheira. Four figures working in the fields. On the left, man leaning forward, wearing a large-brimmed hat, not the face, arms straight down, and the on the right hand touches the foot. At his side, to the right, back man, lowered towards a bag lying on the floor. Further to the right, in the background, woman picking coffee, wearing blue blouse and yellow skirt. More to the center and background outline of two figures. The first holds a sieve and the latter carries a bag of coffee. At the bottom on the left, coffee plantation.

Show lessRead more
  • Title: Coffee Havest
  • 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: 1957
  • Physical Dimensions: w21 x h22.5cm 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:group:men, human figure:woman
  • Technique: pastel, lead pencil
  • Signature: Signed in bottom right corner "Portinari". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 5954
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4983
Projeto Portinari

Get the app

Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more

Home
Discover
Play
Nearby
Favorites