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Mate Harvester

Candido Portinari1938

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and brown. Lines defining contours and shading setting volumes. Composition representing kill man holding branch, occupying the central area of ​​the support, seeing to the bottom stack of hay and two tree trunks. The man is standing in front, with slightly turned upside down, angular face has indicated hair, forehead marked by wrinkles, eyes marked by spots, straight nose, lips parted and wide neck. The figure is strong and muscular, is bare, secure trunk with the on the left hand edge of a matt trunk, which removes a branch with the on the right hand, the sheets indicated. On the floor, on the left, cut trunk from which sprout sprigs. In the background, on the left, stacked bales probably kill the already packed. On the right vertical band suggesting a trunk, and in the center, two tronquinhos sprouting and a large trunk vertically and a smaller horizontal.

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  • Title: Mate Harvester
  • 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: 1938
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w82 x h184cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:workers:farm hand, human figure:man
  • Technique: charcoal
  • Signature: Stamped signature in bottom left corner "Portinari*". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 3926
  • Function: Fragment of the cartoon “Mate Herb” [FCO 5339]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-841
Projeto Portinari

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