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Figures
Candido Portinari1941
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black, white and blue tones. Predominance of sinuous lines. Outline grids figures from background suggesting tile panel. At the upper left corner, on the right center and on the right upper, scribbles suggesting human figures. Moose lines involve the central figure and suggestion pita on the right.
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Details
- Title: Figures
- 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: 1941
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w11 x h6.8cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: human figure:figure
- Technique: colored pencil
- Signature: Stamped signature in bottom left corner "Portinari*". Undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 682
- Inscription: On reverse, lines possibly by the artist; authentication and inscriptions by Maria Portinari "DN 313” and "Nº 523”.
- Function: Sketch for a tile panel for the façade of the Palácio Gustavo Capanema, Rio de Janeiro, RJ; not executed
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1444
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