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Coffee

Candido Portinari1935

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black, white and red tones. Predominance of contour lines and light shaded and numbered squares. Study representing coffee harvest It depicts. In the foreground, from the left to the right: open bag of coffee; 3/4 man facing left, carrying the head, bag of coffee; man half-length, back with bag of coffee in the head; Man figure, 3/4 to the left, with hat on, holding in his on the left hand a bucket. In the background, also from the left to the right: two children playing near a bag of coffee and woman sitting on the floor next to a ladder with his on the left hand through his hair; coffee sacks stack; man be suggesting bagging coffee. The third plan, from the left to the right: foreman figure, in profile to the right, wearing boots with an outstretched on the right arm, pointing forward in the direction of several men who are inclined, as if picking up bags of coffee for stack another stack of bags. In the background, hint of men working on the plantation, just sketched, seeing to the right, a bagging coffee worker.

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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: w58 x h40cm 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:child, human figure:group:men, human figure:woman
  • Technique: lead pencil , fountain pen
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 577
  • Inscription: Grid for enlargement with numbering at top, bottom and left edges. On reverse, rough sketch of coffee tree possibly by the artist; authentication and inscriptions by Maria Portinari "DN 410” and "Nº 722”.
  • Function: Small-scale cartoon for the painting “Coffee” [FCO 1191]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-536
Projeto Portinari

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