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Boy Crying

Candido Portinari1955

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Contour lines, dashed and intersecting lines. Composition representing boy standing in front, hands on his face occupying almost all stand upon the right against white background. The boy is squalid, has excessively long arms folded with intertwined hands holding kind of cloth covering his face. It has oversized belly is naked from the waist down looking up sex, have legs apart, on the right foot and on the left profile with just your fingers on the floor, almost opposite. Quickly dashed near the foot suggests the horizontal plane where the boy is standing.

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  • Title: Boy Crying
  • 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: 1955
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w11.2 x h18.2cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:war, human figure:child:boy
  • Technique: India ink pen
  • Signature: Signed and dated at bottom left "Portinari 55"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1793
  • Notes: Support affixed to cardboard.. Work destroyed in the 1980s in a fire at owner’s residence.
  • Inscription: On reverse, inscription "Nº 355”.
  • Function: Study for the panel “War” [FCO 3799]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3525
Projeto Portinari

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