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Boy with Trap
Candido Portinari1933
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Predominance of contour lines. In the center of the composition, boy sitting on the floor with stretched and open legs, head turned to the left 3/4 with curly hair, only suggested facial features and bare feet. Wears shirt and pants that have a shorter on the right leg to the left, with suspender on the right. Securely between the legs one trap.
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Details
- Title: Boy with Trap
- 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: 1933
- Location Created: Brodowski, São Paulo, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w16.5 x h14cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: Brazilian Culture:children's games:toys:bird trap, human figure:child:boy
- Technique: lead pencil
- Signature: Unsigned and undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 542
- Notes: Support affixed to cardboard.
- Inscription: On back of frame, inscription by Maria Portinari "DN 737”.
- Function: Study for the drawings Childhood [FCO 4057] and Boy with Trap [FCO 3504] and for the painting Sitting Boy [FCO 3245]
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-337
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