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Dead Man

Candido Portinari1955

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition unidentified tones. Firm lines of contours and shaded. It depicts dead man lying on the floor watching group. In the center of the group, man lying with his head to the left of the composition, facing backward, on the right arm along the body wearing clothes sleeve at the elbow and pants to the leg height of the potato. He is lying on top of lighter cloth to the ground. In the center of the composition, kneeling woman's head and thrown down hair down, holding his on the right hand a piece of cloth. wear light-colored dress and has no on the left hand representation. To the left of the composition, two men standing on either side of a kneeling woman being held by the two men. The woman is with her face turned up, looking in despair. The man on the left is slightly tilted upward woman, holding her on the left arm with his on the left hand and with his on the right arm wrapped in his head. It wears tabs hat, clothes goes to the knee and wears flip-flops. The man on the right of the safe-the woman with both hands, using tabs hat and clothes with horizontal dashed. To the right, two men standing with light-colored clothes, facial features not defined holding hands hat, watching the dead. Next to them, front of horse grazing. Basically, more to the center, house with rectangular door. Opposite the house, woman facing and suggested child. Floor with dashed and fulfilled, following up the horizon. In the background, sky representation with crescent moon on the left.

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  • Title: Dead Man
  • 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: 1955
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:death, social:Northeastern migrant, Nature:Animals:horse, human figure:child, human figure:group, human figure:man, human figure:woman
  • Technique: medium unidentified
  • Signature: Signed and dated at bottom right "PORTINARI 55"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 4067
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3406
Projeto Portinari

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