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Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Heading Out on Their Adventures

Candido Portinari1956

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in blue, gray, yellow, white, orange and earthy tones. Straight, parallel, and intersecting lines and colored areas. It depicts Don Quixote on his horse and Sancho Panza riding his donkey against yellow background. In the foreground, to the left, horse almost profile to the left with his right foreleg bent, horsedback by Don Quijote, squalid, his trunk and head almost facing forward. He wears a dark armor, suggested to be made out of iron. His left hand holds the reins of the horse and his right holds a spear. In the background, on the right, a donkey facing forward, being horsebacked by Sancho, who is too fat, and is wearing a broad brimmed hat, jacket, vest, pants below the knees and striped socks. Background and floor blend in with yellow areas defined by parallel and curved lines; to the left, near upper right corner of the supporting, a sun is represented.

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  • Title: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Heading Out on Their Adventures
  • 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: 1956
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w21.5 x h28.5cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Nature:Animals:donkey, Nature:Animals:horse, human figure:group:men, diverse:literary character:D. Quixote, diverse:literary character:Sancho Panza
  • Technique: colored pencil
  • Signature: Signed at bottom right "Portinari". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1219
  • Function: Illustration for the book “Don Quixote,” by Cervantes, which was never published. Don Quixote Series
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3755
Projeto Portinari

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