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Candido Portinari1954

Projeto Portinari

Projeto Portinari
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Composition in blue tones, ochre, gray, orange. Thick texture with marked brushstrokes. Boy holding ox is tied to a stake in arid lanscape with hills in the background. In the center of the front steer composition slightly off to the left with the head turned to the right. The ox is the kind of horns tied rope, one end of a pole stuck behind the animal and the other end held by the boy who is on the right in the center, standing in front. The boy is low compared to the size of the ox, has blue fur hat wears orange and blue clothes. The earthy where the figure is flat in ochre, the background on the horizon, hills. Sky in shades of blue. Shadow of the figures projected to the right of the composition.

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  • Title: Migrant
  • 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: 1954
  • Location Created: Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Physical Dimensions: w54.5 x h46cm without frame
  • Provenance: João Candido Portinari
  • Rights: João Candido Portinari
  • External Link: Projeto Portinari
  • Theme: Nature:Animals:ox, Nature:landscape:field, human figure:child:boy
  • Technique: oil
  • Signature: Signed and dated in bottom left corner "PORTINARI 54"
  • Painter: Candido Portinari
  • Number: FCO 1912
  • Catalogue Raisonné: CR-3321
Projeto Portinari

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