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Coffee

Candido Portinari1935

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black, white and blue tones. Predominance of contour lines. Coffee harvest It depicts. In the foreground on the left of a ladder; the center man walking forward, carrying bag of coffee in the head. In the background, on the right, Profile man to the right, leaning down with sieve in front; a little behind on the floor, a coffee bag opened. On the third level, on the left two men bent down; on the right man on a ladder, stirring something little that is set before him. In the background, several sketched figures, with two, center, suggest be harvesting coffee.

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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: 1935
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w20 x h32cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating coffee, social:workers:farm hand, human figure:group:men
  • Technique: lead pencil , colored pencil
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 578
  • Notes: Work executed on cover of a copy of catalog from "Exposição Portinari" [CT 104].
  • Inscription: On reverse, authentication and inscriptions by Maria Portinari "DN 349” and "Nº 538”.. In bottom half, printed inscriptions "EXPOSIÇÃO PORTINARI" and "SÃO PAULO 1934".
  • Function: Study for the painting “Coffee” [FCO 1191]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-535
Projeto Portinari

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