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Dead Boy
Candido Portinari1944
Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Composition in black and white. Contour lines and some shading. Scrawny dead body being of a boy being carried by two hands. The child is in the horizontal line of the support with the head to the left. He has an angular face and no hair, eyes closed and deep, and mouth ajar. The right arm is falling vertically. The hands that hold the body are facing up and we see the outstretched fingers. The right hand holds the child by the back and the left holds him by the legs. In the lower half of the support we see two photographs pasted.
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Details
- Title: Dead Boy
- 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: 1944
- Location Created: Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Physical Dimensions: w87.5 x h69.5cm without frame
- Provenance: João Candido Portinari
- Rights: João Candido Portinari
- External Link: Projeto Portinari
- Theme: social:death, social:Northeastern migrant, human figure:child:boy
- Technique: oil
- Signature: Signed at bottom right "Portinari". Undated
- Painter: Candido Portinari
- Number: FCO 604
- Notes: Support affixed to wood.
- Inscription: In bottom half, montage by the artist: at left, photograph of the work "Dead Child” [FCO 2735]; at right, photograph of the work "Burial in a Hammock” [FCO 2734]. On back of frame, inscription by Maria Portinari "DN 667”.
- Function: Study for the panel Dead Child [FCO 2735]. Migrants Series
- Catalogue Raisonné: CR-2056
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