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Composition in the earthy shades, blue, yellow, black and green. Fast, tangled, circular and intersecting lines. Composition representing boy crying amid the arid lanscape with hill in the background and the sun shining. The figure is in the foreground, on the left of center, standing and facing. It has dark skin, wear kind of skirt with long end holding with both hands and that he covers his face. It has legs apart and are barefoot. Behind his silhouette find themselves geometrical areas in blue. The figure is standing on flat and barren earthy with hill in the background. In heaven, on the right, circle suggesting sun.

Details

  • 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: 1956-05
  • Physical Dimensions: w21 x h30.5cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:war, Nature:landscape:field, human figure:child:boy
  • Technique: lead pencil , crayon, color crayon
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 3710
  • Inscription: Signed and dated in dedication at bottom right "Para Marina afetuosamente, Portinari Capri V-956”
  • Function: Study for the panel “War” [FCO 3799]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3886

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