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Death

Candido Portinari1950

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Winding straight lines, intersecting and loose strokes. Closed hand holding a flag with the inscription "FAST", surrounded by worms and in the distance, five forces with bodies hanging by ropes occupying the entire area of ​​the composition. In the foreground on the left hand closed front view, holding the stem of a flag with the lower end pointed and whose undulating drapery, which occupies almost the width of the composition, read the "FAST" registration. Hand is surrounded by fantastic worms and one of them has a sore head the rod tip, where blood flows. In the background, on the right, five forces side by side in slight diagonal on the right to on the left and front to back, with bodies hanging from a rope. Basically, in light and dark areas formed by intersecting lines, single lines and short dashes.

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  • Title: Death
  • 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: 1950
  • Physical Dimensions: w14 x h20.5cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: diverse:symbolic figure, Nature:Animals:worm, human figure:limbs:hand
  • Technique: India ink pen
  • Signature: Signed and dated in top left corner "Portinari 1950"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1796
  • Function: Illustration for a poem by Howard Fast. It was probably the american poet Howard Fast who commissioned this illustration, which was published in the “Les Partisans de la Paix magazine
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2908
Projeto Portinari

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