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Flowers

Candido Portinari1940

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in tones earthy, ochre, gray, blue, yellow, red, green, black, white, rose. Rough texture and brush strokes marked the flowers and foliage. The vessel and the bottom have smooth texture. Vase with flowers and foliage occupying the central area of ​​the composition, carrying a bouquet of yellow chrysanthemums and white, red carnation and rose rose interspersed with delicate foliage in shades of green against background in shades of rose. Next to the vessel, to the left, a few petals and leaves. Vase represented on the basis of dark shades of gray, black and earthy. These tones gradually lighten the bottom to the top of the composition, forming clear horizontal band at the center, which is acquiring shades of blue "degrade" to the dark blue top.

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  • Title: Flowers
  • 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: 1940
  • Location Created: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w60 x h73cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Nature:flowers
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed and dated in bottom right corner "PORTINARI BRO[DOWSKI] 1940"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1131
  • Notes: The last letters of the location are illegible.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1225
Projeto Portinari

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