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Ethereal Message I

Candido Portinari1946

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Sinuous lines and straight. Shaded obtained by tangled and intersecting lines more or less close. Composition with abstract and figurative forms. In the center stand two faces side by side, facing three quarters to the left, with tears falling from the eyes represented by big drops. At the upper right corner, representation of two hands being the closed on the left and on the right open. Between the two heads and hands no suggestion of other heads. Straight and sinuous lines together occupy the whole area of ​​the composition and wider sinuous lines, seem to wrap it.

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  • Title: Ethereal Message I
  • 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: 1946
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w23.5 x h25cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: human figure:limbs:arm, human figure:limbs:head, non-figurative
  • Technique: India ink pen
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 773
  • Notes: Support affixed to cardboard.
  • Inscription: On reverse, inscription by Maria Portinari "DN 644(A)”.
  • Function: Illustration no. 1 for the book “Mensagem etérea,” by Manoel de Abreu
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2509
Projeto Portinari

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