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Men with Sieves

Candido Portinari1960

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black tones, white, red and ochre. Predominance of straight lines cutting the composition in all directions, shaded and scraped. Composition suggesting figures that were sifting coffee. Drawing with many intersecting lines, with a certain geometrics and smooth shaded background and figures which overlap.

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  • Title: Men with Sieves
  • 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: 1960
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w15 x h11cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating coffee, social:workers:farm hand
  • Technique: lead pencil , color crayon, sanguine
  • Signature: Stamped signature at bottom right edge "Portinari*". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 579
  • Inscription: On reverse, authentication and inscriptions by Maria Portinari "DN 566” and "Nº 778”.
  • Function: Study, not used, for the panel “Coffee Harvest” [FCO 2729]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4720
Projeto Portinari

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