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Dead Boy

Candido Portinari1955

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in rose tones, blue, black and white. Contour lines, shaded and scraped. Boy dead, naked, occupying the center of the stand area. It is in the prone position, slightly on the left diagonal to on the right, front to back. The head has on the left the composition, slightly turned backward, on the left arm lying folded on the belly side and on the right arm stretched to the body. Legs stretched together, and the on the right knee is slightly bent.

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  • 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: 1955
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w40 x h17cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: social:war, social:death, human figure:child:boy
  • Technique: colored pencil, crayon
  • Signature: Signed in bottom half "Portinari". Undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1372
  • Inscription: Inscription in bottom half "guerra O.N.U”. On back of frame, label from Artefact framing house.
  • Function: Study for the painting “Dead Boy” [FCO 5087]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3531
Projeto Portinari

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