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Profile of Child
Candido Portinari1930
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Fast contour lines and some shaded. Profile child's head to the left occupying the top half of the support. The profile is well defined, seeing if snub nose, lips closed and prominent chin. Suggesting hair being short or being arrested. Short neck seeing the beginning of the on the left shoulder. Slight shading on the face reveals eye and well round cheek.
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Details
- Title: Profile of Child
- 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: 1930
- Physical Dimensions: w9.5 x h14.5cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: human figure:child, human figure:limbs:head
- Technique: lead pencil
- Signature: Signed in top half "CPortinari". Undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 2515
- Inscription: On back of frame, inscription "573”; label from Moldurarte framing house; some lines.
- Function: Work done by the artist in Paris after winning the European Trip Prize. In addition, he did two nudes [FCO 2635, FCO 3833], three still lifes [FCO 63, FCO 901, FCO 2867], a self-portrait [FCO 3156], a portrait [FCO 5218] and two other drawings [FCO 2514, FCO 3673].
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-173
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