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Irrigating the Desert
Candido Portinari1956
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Sketch lines. Planting apparatus being watered in a "T" with two points upwards where two jets of water exit. This instrument seems to be rotatable and is fastened in planted area.
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Details
- Title: Irrigating the Desert
- 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
- Physical Dimensions: w17 x h21cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: Nature:landscape:desert
- Technique: lead pencil
- Signature: Signed in middle of bottom half "Portinari". Undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 269
- Inscription: Inscription in bottom right corner "ISRAEL”. On reverse, authentication and inscriptions by Maria Portinari "DN 71” and "Nº 831”.
- Function: Sketch. Israel Series
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3976
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