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Boys Playing

Candido Portinari1959

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in black and white. Parallel lines. It depicts children playing, climbing tree, whose trunk cuts the composition vertically. Four boys are standing on the ground, one on the left of the tree and three on the right. Everyone is looking and with arms stretched toward the tree and the boys who are trepados it. Two boys go up in the trunk: one, marked with soft contours, it is more on top; the second boy is lower and is more defined. Basically, parallel scratches and sun on the right. The scene is bounded by rectangle. Outside the rectangle, a figure standing in front, looking hold a bag or cloth, in front of the extended body.

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  • Title: Boys Playing
  • 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: 1959
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w24 x h32cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Brazilian Culture:children's games:play, human figure:group:children
  • Technique: lead pencil
  • Signature: Unsigned and undated
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 5755
  • Notes: Work executed in the artist’s own sketchbook.
  • Function: Sketch for the engraving “Boy in Tree” [FCO 809]
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-4601
Projeto Portinari

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