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Cotton Harvest

Candido Portinari1937

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Contour lines defining shapes and light shading. Composition representing cotton harvest It depicts with plantation in the background. In the foreground on the left figure standing in profile to the right, wearing a hat and long sleeve shirt. Carries over the on the left shoulder bag which puts the harvested cotton - that it crosses the chest and covers his whole body; has flexed on the right arm, harvesting by hand a flower cotton that is in front; It has bare feet. In the center, standing figure, front, arched body, head covered by low hat, raised his arms and body covered by the bag which places the cotton harvested. On the right part of a half-open bag revealing suggestion cotton acorns. In the background, on the right, figure suggesting that a woman, hat, holding in his on the right hand cotton flower, as if it were put into the bag holding with his on the left hand and is attached to his on the left shoulder. The bag you through almost the entire body, revealing part of her skirt and her legs ajar and barefoot. Behind this figure, bags stacked in perspective for background. In the center, faded traces suggest figure back with hat. To the right of center, figure suggestion, standing to the right profile, with the arched body, picking cotton. On the left, the start area with thick cotton plants, forming a diagonal on the left to the right, front to the back in perspective, where the on the left are suggested other cotton pickers. Accompanying this area, suggesting that track road that separates the cotton planting acreage another, suggested by the fence and parallel strips on the diagonal on the right to on the left and in perspective to the left. At the beginning of the first three tracks, superimposed and slightly shaded traits suggest the volume of the crop. On the horizon, small elevations suggestion.

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  • Title: Cotton Harvest
  • 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: 1937
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w28 x h39.5cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating cotton, social:workers:female settler, social:workers:farm hand, human figure:child, human figure:group:men, human figure:woman
  • Technique: lead pencil
  • Signature: Signed at bottom right "Portinari". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2392
  • Inscription: On reverse, inscription by Maria Portinari "Nº 124 Desenho de autoria de Candido Portinari autenticado por Maria Victoria Portinari”.. On back of frame, inscription "4150” [three times].
  • Function: Study for the mural painting “Cotton” [FCO 1753]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-755
Projeto Portinari

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