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Cotton Harvest

Candido Portinari1937

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in gray tones, ochre, green, blue, white and black. Contours graphite, solid areas, and bulk effects aquarelados support. 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 with flap up and blue long sleeve shirt. It over the on the left shoulder strap holding bag which places the harvested cotton, through which it covers the chest and his whole body; has flexed on the right arm, harvesting by hand the flower of the cotton plant that is in front; It has bare feet. In the center, standing figure, front, body arched, low head covered by dark hat wide-brimmed, dress blouse light green long sleeves, with the rest of the body covered by the bag which places the cotton picking with hands of a foot is in front. On the right, you know open, revealing the cotton acorns already harvested. In the background, three other figures, all wearing hats, long sleeve clothing, bags crossed on his chest, and the on the right faces and the other two almost back. Behind the figure faces, stacked bags, compounding the on the left to the right diagonal, the front to back. On the right in the middle of a path, sacks stacked two by two, and only drawn in perspective. On the third level, path where feet appear sparse cotton and suggested two figures with the same characteristics of the above, to the right of center. Basically, planting in perspective to the left, in light green tones marked by darker parallel strips, and front on the left a tablet. Basically, thin green horizontal band, preceded by a gray band and a bluer wide.

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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: w26.5 x h37.5cm 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:man, human figure:woman
  • Technique: gouache , lead pencil
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2384
  • Function: Small-scale color sketch for the mural painting “Cotton” [FCO 1753]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-756
Projeto Portinari

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