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Cotton

Candido Portinari1938

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in ochre, earthy, black, blue, green, white, yellow tones. Color areas. It depicts several figures picking and bagging cotton. In the foreground on the left, four stacked bags; in the center, a woman standing facing forward, her head bowed, she is wearing a hat, a long sleeve shirt and a sort of dark apron, she holds cotton buttons from a cotton plant in front of her; on the right, a pumpkin on the ground and a girl wearing a heat is standing facing forward and has a big stacked bag over her left shoulder. In the background, on the right, a man is standing in profile to the left, leaning, he is wearing a hat and a bag is suggested to be hanging around his neck; slightly behind that figure there is a high stack of bags. On the third level, on the left, a man is standing in profile to the right, leaning and there is a bag suggested to be attached to his right shoulder; in the center, a repetition of the woman in the foreground. At the back, with cotton plants arranged symmetrically, a new repetition of the woman portraited in the foreground and stacked bags.

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  • Title: Cotton
  • 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: w41 x h42cm 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:coffee packer, social:workers:farm hand, human figure:child:girl, human figure:group:men, human figure:woman
  • Technique: lead pencil , pastel
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1007
  • Function: Small-scale color sketch for the mural painting “Cotton” [FCO 1753]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-887
Projeto Portinari

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