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Coffee

Candido Portinari1942

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in tones earthy, yellow, green, blue and ochre. Smooth texture. Open coffee bag, against lanscape with hill in the background. In the foreground, a little on the left of center, open bag of coffee and tilted, as if being poured, with some grains falling on the right. In the background, two side elevations, from the center to the left and on the right edges of the support, with small strokes on earthy, suggesting coffee plantation. At the base of the on the left elevation, suggesting small shrubs in perspective and on the basis of the on the right lift six other shrubs side by side. In third plane, the center earthy die depicted in top and ochre with dots earthy on the bottom. Ground floor range in the foreground and yellow to the highs. Blue sky represented by horizontal strokes.

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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: 1942
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w15 x h18cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating coffee, Nature:landscape:field
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed at bottom right edge "Portinari". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2052
  • Inscription: On paper affixed to stretcher, inscription "Candido Portinari – Café óleo, 18 x 14 cms. 1940 Col. particular”; label from Artefact framing house.
  • Function: Illustration, not used, for poster.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1724
Projeto Portinari

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