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Head of Girl
Candido Portinari1956
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in gray and white. Quick and angular features. Girl's head occupying the entire area of support. The figure has broad face, hair represented by dashed zigzag eyebrows, slanting eyes, nose suggested and indicated lips. Sees the start of the neck-neck outlined by zigzag.
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Details
- Title: Head of Girl
- 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: 1956
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w9 x h13.5cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: human figure:child:girl, human figure:limbs:head
- Technique: fountain pen
- Signature: Signed and dated in bottom left corner "Portinari 56"
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 3990
- Notes: Work executed on page of autograph book. Ink from fountain pen faded with time. Support affixed to cardboard.
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4024
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