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Coffee Plantation

Candido Portinari1942

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in yellow tones, earthy, ochre, green, blue, white and black. Texture unidentified. It depicts people working coffee plantation. In the foreground on the left area in earthy tone with coffee bush and next, man standing holding sieve on top with both hands. He wears sleeves and white pants without defining facial features. On the right, three bags of coffee stacked. More in the center, floor area in yellow tone, with three stacks of bags of coffee in perspective from the left to the right and front to back. Coffee bush suggestion in the center figure of a woman wearing white dress over to the right and behind, a figure suggesting girl with open arms, also wearing white clothes. On the right, a tree, suggesting coconut. Deep down hills in green tones and earthy, all filled with symmetrical coffee plantation. Sky in blue tones, clearing to the skyline.

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  • Title: Coffee Plantation
  • 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: 1942
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w13 x h11.5cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating coffee, human figure:man, human figure:woman
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 4942
  • Function: Illustration, not used, for poster.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1723
Projeto Portinari

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