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Composition in tones rose, earthy, ochre, blue, yellow, gray, red, black and white. Smooth texture with strokes marked in the figures. Representation of three washerwomen in arid lanscape with stream and sky in the background. In the foreground, a little on the right of center, woman figure almost full length, front, with his head and long hair hanging forward and to the right, covering up her part of the face. It has muscular arms bent with hands together at the waist, a garment rubbing against a plank resting on his body and out inside a vat in front. In the background, the center, another laundress partially concealed by the figure of the front, standing and facing with the head turned to the right, schematized facial features, wearing beret on the long, straight hair. Also rub of clothing against the board out of the tub before him. To the right, in profile to the left and leaning forward, black short-haired woman in a position who also washes clothes. Behind the washerwomen, geometric areas in darker tones that overlap the figures. On the left, arid earthy with three clumps and a few stones. On the right behind the black woman, light blue strip diagonally from the left to the right and front to the back like a stream full of rocks. Might blue sky.

Details

  • Title: Washerwomen
  • 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: 1951
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w29.5 x h30.3cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:workers:washerwoman, human figure:group:women
  • Technique: gouache
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2948
  • Notes: Support cut out by the artist.
  • Inscription: On back of frame, inscription "Nº 31) PORT PP [illegible] 356 OF PAT BRASIL 397)”; handwritten label "MU/009”.
  • Function: Illustration no. 4 for the novel “Cangaceiros,” by José Lins do Rego. Cangaceiros Series
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3007

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