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Boy with Sheep and Other Studies

Candido Portinari1955

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black shades, blue, orange, red, and white earthy. Boy study with support ram, boy roping horn of an ox, and four feet figure's face. To the left in the longitudinal direction of the support, figure head back, suggesting to be asleep or dead, looking up closed eyes, nostrils, lips closed and rounded chin. To the left of center, boy standing in front, carrying kind of burden on his head and with his on the left hand a ram standing in front. More up between the boy and the ram, standing vertically study finding themselves the sole and toes. On the right ox standing in front, and on your on the left a profile of boy on the left with on the right leg bent knee and leaning against the animal's belly. He appears to be wearing a leg to have firmly to pull a rope that is around the on the left horn of the animal. The bottom part of this composition is all defined by parallel lines vertically. Below this It depicts, from the left to the right, are seen detail of a heel seen from behind; detail of a foot seen from behind and detail the other foot slightly back to the left, also seen from behind. Straight lines cross the composition looking up small squares in some intercessions.

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  • Title: Boy with Sheep and Other Studies
  • 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: w36.5 x h27cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Nature:Animals:ox, Nature:Animals:sheep, human figure:child:boy, human figure:limbs:head, human figure:limbs:foot
  • Technique: lead pencil , colored pencil
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 2463
  • Inscription: On reverse, inscriptions by Maria Portinari "Nº 275 Desenho de autoria de Candido Portinari, autenticado por Maria Victoria Portinari” and "DN 560”.
  • Function: Study
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3398
Projeto Portinari

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