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Group of Cangaceiros
Candido Portinari1951
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black, white and blue tones. Sketch lines. Cangaceiros group formed diagonally from the center to the upper on the right corner of the area of the composition. The figures are standing, facing, pointing rifles facing left; only the front figure has outlined physiognomic traits. Everyone wears hat and the clothes are suggested by irregular strokes.
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Details
- Title: Group of Cangaceiros
- 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: 1951
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w12.7 x h15cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: social:Cangaceiro, human figure:group:men
- Technique: lead pencil , colored pencil
- Signature: Stamped signature in bottom right corner "Portinari*". Undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 765
- Inscription: On reverse, authentication and inscriptions by Maria Portinari "DN 212” and "Nº 333”.
- Function: Sketch for the painting Crossfire at Pedra Bonita [FCO 3435]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3021
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