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Man Cutting Sugar Cane
Candido Portinari1937-11-08
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Predominance of contour lines. man study, cutting cane, against plain background. The figure's profile to the right is slightly tilted forward trunk, on the right arm folded holding in his hand a knife; and on the left hand holding a walking cane. On the right leg over the front of the on the left and bare feet. Wears short-sleeved shirt and pants rolled up to just below the knees.
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- Title: Man Cutting Sugar Cane
- 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: 1937-11-08
- Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w37 x h61cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: social:working scenes:sugar cane, social:workers:farm hand, human figure:man
- Technique: charcoal
- Signature: Signed at bottom left "Portinari"
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 107
- Inscription: Dated in inscription at bottom left "croquis Para a Canna 8-XI-937”. On reverse, authentication and inscriptions by Maria Portinari "DN 426” and "Nº 139”.
- Function: Study for the mural painting Sugar Cane [FCO 1749]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-703
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