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Coffee Patio

Candido Portinari1959

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in white and blue. Parallel, loose and tangled lines. Figures in coffee yard, and the coffee plantation background and houses. On the left foreground, two people carrying a timber. On the right, three figures in different positions next to a pile of wood in square shape, suggesting that a fire. On the right group of people standing in different positions. The figures further, one carries a bundle of wood and another is tilted forward. In the background, figures working on large rectangular area. Third plane on the left row houses and planting. In the background, big house with lots of windows and staircase in front.

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  • Title: Coffee Patio
  • 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: 1959
  • Physical Dimensions: w24 x h19cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating coffee, social:workers:farm hand, Brazilian Culture:popular celebrations:Festival of Saint John, human figure:group
  • Technique: fountain pen
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 5743
  • Notes: Work executed in the artist’s own sketchbook.
  • Function: Sketch for the painting “Coffee Patio” [1820]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4661
Projeto Portinari

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