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Hand
Candido Portinari1944
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black, white and gray tones. Predominance of contour lines and watercolor touches. Study on the right hand stylized, open, handle at the bottom upwards, seeing that the folded thumb, the other fingers almost straight, slightly apart score lines and joints, and palm.
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Details
- 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: 1944
- Location Created: Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w29 x h35cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: human figure:limbs:hand
- Technique: India ink brush , India ink wash
- Signature: Unsigned and undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 193
- Inscription: Inscription in top left corner "8”. On reverse, authentication and inscriptions by Maria Portinari "DN 50” and "Nº 375”.
- Function: Study for the tile panel �Saint Francis of Assisi� [FCO 2474]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2008
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