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Coffee

Candido Portinari1938

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in tones earthy, ochre, green, gray, rose, black and white. Smooth texture and marked brushstrokes. Composition representing coffee harvest It depicts with six figures in various attitudes, amid stacked bags and coffee hills. In the foreground, on the left, female figure, seated in profile to the right floor. It has long sleeve dress. He is standing with hands in the middle of the open legs and have bare feet. On the right man standing in front with his arms raised, resting on the head of a sack. wear light clothing dug sleeves, is with slightly advanced on the right leg and has bare feet. Behind him, on the left, stack eight sacks, center, lot of coffee in greenish tones and on the right, three more stacked bags. In the background, on the left, man standing, almost in profile to the right, wearing hat, light clothing, dark boots, with his on the right arm stretched to the right. In the center, two standing figures, one with curved body to the right and the other to the left. The on the left holds a bag in his hands and the on the right is hidden by another figure suggested by blight, delimited by lines in shades earthy that suggests his hat and arms. Basically, geometrized area gray, and green earthy.

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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: w45 x h40cm 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:man, human figure:woman
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 4303
  • Function: Small-scale color sketch for the mural painting “Coffee” [FCO 1755]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-892
Projeto Portinari

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