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Mate Herb

Candido Portinari1938

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in ochre, green, red, purple, white, rose and black. Smooth texture. It depicts three farmers working in yerba mate culture and foreman watching. In the foreground on the left front of worker holding a yerba mate branch in front of a tree trunk. On the right foreman standing back to back, facing slightly to the left. In the background, on the left, farmer standing in front. On the third level, farmer standing back to back. Background with irregular geometrical areas and ground suggesting area have surrounded with yerba mate plant, in front of the foreman.

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  • Title: Mate Herb
  • 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: w50 x h72cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:working scenes:cultivating mate, social:workers:foreman, social:workers:farm hand, human figure:group:men
  • Technique: gouache , lead pencil
  • Signature: Signed at bottom left edge "Portinari". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 5315
  • Inscription: Numbers and inscriptions throughout and around image and in color scales.
  • Function: Small-scale color sketch for the mural painting “Mate Herb” [FCO 1754]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-891
Projeto Portinari

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