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Face of Girl
Candido Portinari1955-06-29
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in gray and white. Rapid lines. Girl's face from the front, in the center of the stand area. Round face, hair represented by quick strokes zigzag with lace on top of the head, short forehead, eyebrows tilted down, wide open round eyes, nose represented by two curves and two points, suggested lips, chin pit in the center. Neck started.
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Details
- Title: Face of Girl
- 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: 1955-06-29
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w21.5 x h15cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: human figure:child:girl, human figure:limbs:head
- Technique: fountain pen
- Signature: Signed and dated at bottom right "Portinari 955"
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 2853
- Notes: Work executed on menu from ship Giulio Cesare.. Drawing executed June 29, 1955 during lunch on board the ship Giulio Cesare.
- Inscription: On reverse, On reverse, reproduction of vase of flowers and signatures of those present (Vera Zander; Robert Maurice, Minister of Switzerland; Franco Bellia, Italian commercial attaché; Yedda and Silvio Schiller; Liliana Angeli; and Maria and Candido Portinari); label from Artefact framing house.
- Function: Sketch
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3688
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