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Fish with Human Face
Candido Portinari1942
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in blue tones, black and white. Contour lines and some shaded. Tile panel (disassembled) representing fish - lozenges suggesting inserted into the meshes of a net - distributed symmetrically, each profile to the right, against white and bluish background. The animal is well rounded, has fins on the back and belly, well-defined, as well as on the tail. It has eye round and straight mouth suggesting human face. Five parallel sinuous lines in the vertical and define the scales.
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Details
- Title: Fish with Human Face
- 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: 1942
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: Nature:Animals:fish
- Technique: tiles
- Signature: Unsigned and undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 4019
- Function: Work was executed for an external wall of the Palácio Gustavo Capanema, but was dismounted by order of Minister Gustavo Capanema. The tiles were kept in one of the building�s storage rooms until they were found in 1982. They were then provisionally arranged according to the numbering on the back
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1607
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