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Coffee

Candido Portinari1938

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in ochre, earthy, gray, green, white and blue. Smooth texture with visible brush strokes. Color was used to serve as a road map in the execution of mural by setting only, large colored areas. The figures are only outlined with no defined facial features. The composition is bagging It depicts and bags of coffee transportation. In the foreground, on the left, woman sitting on the floor, profile to the right, legs stretched forward, hands in her lap. On the right front man holding bag of coffee back, wear light clothing sleeveless. In the background, on the left, sitting behind the settler nine bags of coffee stacked coming to the top edge of the composition. In the center, two dark areas suggesting coffee mounds. On the third level, on the left, foreman figure, almost on his back with his on the right arm stretched forward, and on the right suggestion three little figures defined, sloped working. Below the color project, which is pasted on card, see to the left, scale numbered colors, and on the right design for transportation picture to mural Coffee - Economic Cycle.

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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: w50 x h70cm 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: gouache , lead pencil
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 52
  • Inscription: Numbers on image correspond to numbers in color scale. Montage by the artist on cardboard. Numbers throughout image correspond to scale of colors located at bottom left. At bottom right, photograph of the cartoon "Coffee” [FCO 5340]. On reverse of cardboard, authentication, and on back of frame, inscription "DN 694,” both by Maria Portinari.
  • Function: Small-scale color sketch for the mural painting “Coffee” [FCO 1755]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-898
Projeto Portinari

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