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Girl with Flower

Candido Portinari1938

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in tones earthy, ochre, blue, black, white, gray and red. Smooth texture. Girl holding a flower, against lanscape of hills. The girl is mulatto, is at the center of the composition, standing, facing, holding his on the right hand across his chest, a stylized flower. The figure is depicted with deliberate expressive deformation: big and round face, stocky body and hands and feet increased. It has a gray ribbon with red dots on top of the head, black, smooth and long hair, facial features marked by black lines, no neck representation. wear light-colored dress, pleated, long sleeve with scattered black dots. Light dress contrasts with the dark tones of the rest of the composition and the light falling from the right, form a shady area around the face on the right and the girl's body. On the floor to the left, a bauzinho leaves the tin blue, placed vertically; on the right an element that suggests that a rope and more ago, two mounds that look like stones. Girl in front of some fallen stones on the ground. At the bottom on the left, a hill surmounted by two wires which bind to a species of broad portal where the die is inserted and in whose base there is a fence bit set. In front of this, a cylindrical shape which seems to be hung by a thread. In the center and on the right of the hill, two rectangular light areas at the top and some bright dots. In the background, on the right, a larger hill, with little sparse detailed houses and a more defined on the base. Blue sky.

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  • Title: Girl with Flower
  • 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: 1938
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w65 x h81cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:shanty town, social:ethnic groups:mulatto, human figure:child:girl, diverse:recurring elements:trunk, diverse:recurring elements:rope
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed and dated in bottom left corner "PORTINARI 1938"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2407
  • Inscription: On back of frame, label from Artefact framing house; inscriptions "112) Nº 8 [illegible] TAVARES 167 MARF + FP 383 OF+ [illegible] MARF 2 213” and "PORTINARI”.
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-936
Projeto Portinari

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