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Hand

Candido Portinari1938

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and brown. Lines defining contours and shading setting volume. man's on the left hand holding study sugarcane beam occupying the center of the composition. The hand is open looking up your thumb, index, middle and ring stretched down supported by a cane beam. The on the right composition, the diagonal line on the right to on the left from bottom to top in the entire drawing is the rear of a figure which is inclined forward.

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  • Title: Hand
  • 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: w36.5 x h48.5cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:workers, human figure:limbs:hand
  • Technique: charcoal
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 974
  • Notes: Support affixed to cardboard.
  • Function: Fragment of the cartoon “Sugar Cane” [FCO 5334]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-830
Projeto Portinari

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