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Coffee

Candido Portinari1938

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in gray tones, ochre, rose, green, earthy, blue and white. Rough texture. It depicts bagging and loading of coffee. In the foreground, on the left, sitting back settler, 3/4 toward the on the right with hands in her lap and legs apart. Has blue rag on his head, wears rose dress and is barefoot. On the right, worker walking forward with his arms raised holding large bag that carries on his back. wear rose outfit with shaded areas in earthy tone. In the background, from the left to the right: part of a stack of eight sacks, cylindrical trunk, dark mountain, and three sacks stack. In the third level, on the left, foreman standing back 3/4 facing right, pointing in front of him, wearing brimmed hat. In the center and on the right, three more workers lowered in several directions bagging coffee and close to them, in the center of the composition, lot representing clustered coffee. Basically, planted field suggestion, three piles in perspective for background and blue sky clearing up the skyline.

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  • Title: Coffee
  • 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: 1938
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w38.5 x h46.5cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating coffee, social:workers:foreman, social:workers:female settler, social:workers:farm hand, human figure:group:men, human figure:woman
  • Technique: tempera
  • Signature: Signed and dated at bottom left "PORTINARI 938"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2662
  • Function: Small-scale color sketch for the mural painting “Coffee” [FCO 1755]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-894
Projeto Portinari

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