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Don Quixote Consulting Monkey

Candido Portinari1956

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in blue tones, black, yellow, earthy, violet, gray and rose. Parallel, broken and colorful area straight lines. It depicts group formed by a woman, Sancho Panza, a man with a monkey in his hands and Don Quixote, seeing to the construction background with window and woman leaning on it. In the foreground, from the left to the right, we see Sancho Panza, too fat, almost in profile to the right, wearing jacket attached to the waist, pants below the knees and striped socks; behind it sees brunette woman head with long hair; further to the right; front man, suggesting that a pirate; He wears a dark wide-brimmed hat, has an eye patch over his on the right eye and beard, wears jacket, pants below the knees and striped socks. The arms are folded and holds in his hands a very thin black monkey is in profile to the left. On your on the right, D. Quixote dingy using dark appearing to be armor of metal; She is wide-eyed, has a mustache and goatee horizontally; the arms are folded, and is on the left with the hand on the head and the on the right breast is near the flat hand with seeming calling attention monkey. In the background, construction with woman leaning in a window, to the center; she has his hands near the mouth suggesting be talking to the group. On the left, representing the sun.

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  • Title: Don Quixote Consulting Monkey
  • 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: w26.5 x h32.5cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Nature:Animals:monkey, human figure:group:men, human figure:group:women, diverse:literary character:D. Quixote, diverse:literary character:Sancho Panza
  • Technique: colored pencil
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1218
  • Function: Illustration for the book �Don Quixote,� by Cervantes, which was never published. Don Quixote Series
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3753
Projeto Portinari

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