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Ethereal Message III
Candido Portinari1946
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 no irregular figurative forms giving loose draping effect. Great shape amoeboid suggesting a lyre stands to the left of the composition. Sinuous lines and straight together mainly occupy the on the right part of the composition, and broader sinuous lines seem to wrap it.
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Details
- Title: Ethereal Message III
- 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: w22.6 x h22.8cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: non-figurative
- Technique: India ink pen
- Signature: Unsigned and undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 775
- Notes: Support affixed to cardboard.
- Inscription: On reverse, inscription by Maria Portinari "DN 644(B)”.
- Function: Illustration no. 3 for the book Mensagem etérea, by Manoel de Abreu
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2511
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