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Head of Tiradentes
Candido Portinari1948
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Fast contour lines. Tiradentes head stuck in a cage at the top of a pole that runs through the entire height of the support. Cloth fell to the right of the cage. In the background suggestion of several trunks of trees felled.
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Details
- Title: Head of Tiradentes
- 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: 1948
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w15 x h20cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: historical themes:characters:Tiradentes, human figure:limbs:head
- Technique: lead pencil
- Signature: Initialed at bottom right "C.P.". Undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 382
- Inscription: On reverse, authentication and inscriptions by Maria Portinari "DN 464” and "Nº 407”.
- Function: Study for the panel Tiradentes [FCO 3195]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2790
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