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Laundry Delivery Boy

Candido Portinari1942

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition unidentified tones. Texture unidentified. It depicts bicycle Dyer holding clothes hanger represented by sinuous forms. In the foreground, on the right, man riding a bicycle. He faces seems to have the head half cap, transparent, which lets you see the hair; face looking flat; eyes, nose and oversized mouth. Wears checkered shirt, light and dark tones, long sleeve, light trousers and is barefoot. The feet and hands, are seen prominent veins. Safe in a harmonica on the left hand, which is in the mouth and on the right, a clothes hanger running through almost the entire height and width of the top composition formless. In front of the composition, kite on the ground, and another at the bottom, on the right, in the sky. Background with curved line, suggesting slope and light and dark tones and brighter around the dyer.

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  • Title: Laundry Delivery Boy
  • 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: 1942
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w200 x h300cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Brazilian Culture:children's games:toys:kite, Brazilian Culture:musicians:harmonica player, Brazilian Culture:popular types:laundry man, human figure:man
  • Technique: tempera
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 4162
  • Notes: Work destroyed on March 12, 1949 in a fire at headquarters of the Rádio Tupi of Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
  • Function: Work executed to decorate the headquarters of the Rádio Tupi of Rio de Janeiro, RJ.. Musicians Series
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-1639
Projeto Portinari

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