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Landscape and Houses

Candido Portinari1931

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in green tones, blue, ochre, earthy and ashes. Smooth texture and marked brushstrokes. Hill lanscape with trees, houses and blue sky. In the foreground, the top of a roof with chimney, through almost the entire lower end of the support. In the background, hill covered with vegetation, especially on the left, green tree, a coconut tree to the center, and on the right, square building with no roof. In the third level, on the left, long house with a tree at the door, part of a wall, and on the right, continued the hill seeing yourself on top, another house with two palm trees next to two cypress trees and leafy trees on the hill boundary . In the background, sky light blue.

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  • Title: Landscape and Houses
  • 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: 1931
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w45 x h37cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Nature:landscape:hillside, Nature:landscape:group of houses, Nature:landscape:Rio de Janeiro
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed and dated in top left corner "C.PORTINARI 931"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 3267
  • Inscription: On stretcher, inscription "3934”.
  • Function: This work depicts the view from a window in Portinari’s atelier at Rua Teotônio Regadas 34 in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, where the artist lived from 1931 to 1932
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-228
Projeto Portinari

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